Academics, researchers and rights activists on Friday said that the next national budget should focus on increasing the country鈥檚 human resource capacity to reduce import and dependency on foreign skills.
Speakers in a discussion on Monday expressed dissatisfaction over the preparations for the upcoming national budget with flawed assumptions of the gross domestic product made by the Awami League regime ousted by a popular uprising in the past year.
Rights organisation Nari Unnayan Shakti has called for increased national budget allocation and the introduction of a separate budget for women and children with disabilities...
The SME Foundation has proposed unified 10 per cent VAT for SME sector industries and 1.0 per cent surcharge on profit gain in the upcoming national budget of FY26...
The government is likely to cut down on the cash incentive on exports by more than Tk 1,000 crore in the new financial year of 2025鈥�26.
The national budget for the 2025-26 financial year will be announced on the first Monday of June instead of the traditional announcement day, the first Thursday of the month, due to the celebration of Eid-ul-Azha, a religious festival of the Muslims, Finance Division officials said...
The national budget for the 2025-26 financial year will accommodate major recommendations made by a task force on economy to tame inflation and expand the social safety net by bringing about major changes in the public spending and...
Cultural activists on Friday demanded that one per cent of the national budget for the financial year 2025-26 be set aside for the cultural sector.
The Finance Division on Wednesday asked different ministries and divisions to complete over a dozen steps by April 24 in connection with finalising the estimate of the national budget for the 2025-26 financial year...
The interim government is going to bring about major changes in the national budget by squeezing expenditure for the forthcoming financial year of 2025-26 because of resource crunches, said officials.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday asked secretaries of high spending ministries to ensure transparency and accountability in implementing the national budget for the forthcoming financial year 2025-26.
The proposed bifurcation of the National Board of Revenue and the future role and responsibilities of the two offices of the revenue board after the spilt are likely to get a special focus in the national budget for the forthcoming financial year of 2025-26.
Visiting World Bank vice-president Martin Raiser on Sunday said that the imposition of any new tax measure or tax expenditure should be made through the national budget...
Leaders of Amar Bangladesh Party asserted on Monday that the current Awami League government had no legitimate right to pass the national budget in parliament, as lawmakers were not elected by the people...
The Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday passed the Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget for FY25 setting a goal for achieving 6.75 per cent gross domestic product growth and...
THE likely increase in the losses of the Bangladesh Power Development Board by almost 200 per cent in 2025 suggests a deplorable absence of measures to amend the power policy, which is burdened by, among others, an abnormal level of overcapacity and an absurd capacity charge system...
The National Garment Workers Federation on Monday demanded a special allocation in the proposed national budget for the financial year 2024-25 for introduction of rationing for the garment workersin Bangladesh....
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday said that the government was considering all realistic criticism and suggestions regarding the national budget before passing it in the parliament...
The Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal on Thursday termed the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25 as looter-friendly and said that it would increase sufferings of the ordinary people.....
The Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh on Tuesday called for continuation of existing VAT exemption on tour operator services, which is planned to be withdrawn in the proposed national budget announced on June 6...
Dhaka stocks witnessed a big fall on Sunday, the first trading session after the announcement of the proposed national budget, as panic driven investors continued to offload shares to protect their funds amid the prolonged downward trend on the market amid...
THE national budget for the 2025 financial year, which the finance minister proposed in the parliament on June 6, is high-deficit, with an aim to make up for the shortfall with resources coming from domestic borrowing, 20.2 per cent of the total outlay of Tk 7,970 billion, and foreign loans, 11.4 per cent, along with expected foreign grants of 0.5 per cent...
BNP senior leader Jamiruddin Sircar on Friday said that keeping the provision to legalise black money in the proposed budget amounts to 鈥榩romoting corruption鈥�.....
The government has proposed the reintroduction of undisclosed money legalisation scopes in the new national budget to appease businessmen, officials...
The country鈥檚 business leaders on Thursday expressed their mixed reactions over the proposed national budget for the financial year 2024-25 placed by the...
The share of education in gross domestic product fell again after the announcement of the proposed national budget for the financial year...
People are in for a rough ride ahead as the government decreased the overall allocation in the power and energy sector, compared with the last fiscal year, in the...
Most of the political parties in the country rejected the proposed national budget for the financial year 2024鈥�25 on Thursday, saying that it was not pro-people and would rather encourage corruption...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday announced a series of measures, including reintroducing scope for legalising undisclosed money by paying tax at a...
Cultural activists said that they were disappointed over allocation for cultural affairs ministry in the proposed national budget for 2024-25 fiscal year placed in the...