The National Board of Revenue is likely to miss the target of realising Tk 1,25,000 crore revenue in the just ended fiscal year 2013-14 as the board fetched around Tk 1,03,625.31 crore during the eleven-month of the last fiscal. Thus it is hardly possible for the national exchequer to collect more Tk 22,000 crore revenues in a single month (June).
According to the NBR, the board bagged Tk 1,03,626 crore as against the target of realising Tk 1,06,299.82 revenues during the July-May period of the last fiscal (2013-14), posting about Tk 3,000 crore revenue shortfall.
In the beginning of the last fiscal year, the government set a target of realising Tk 1,36,000 crore revenues in FY 2013-14.
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The tax authority plans to impose a 1 percent surcharge on the use of mobile phone, the proceeds from which will be spent on promoting rural education, officials said.
The National Board of Revenue earlier slapped a 1 percent surcharge on mobile handset sales, effective from the current fiscal year.
The new surcharge, if imposed, will put extra pressure on the users who already pay 15 percent value added tax on their phone bills.
Due to the VAT, a user actually gets talk time of Tk 85 against a top-up of Tk 100 as Tk 15 is deducted by mobile operators. The surcharge will leave the user with Tk 84 talk time.
Bangladesh navy ships BNS Osman and BNS Madhumati docked at Port Sultan Qaboos (PSQ) for two days on the journey back to home country after a two-year stint as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Southern Lebanon.
The ships were part of the Maritime Task Force (MTF), the naval arm of UNIFIL, set up after the 2006 Lebanon War.
SMAK Azad, contingent commander and commanding officer, BNS Osman, said, “Naval ships of several countries took turns to take part in the maritime security stint in the last two years. We have c...
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