Staff Correspondent | Published: 15:03, Jun 06,2021
The proposed national budget for 2021-2022 financial year has forgotten to take the new poor and the people who are lagged behind, mostly affected due to Covid-19 pandemic, on board, Debapriya Bhattacharya, convenor of Citizen s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh said on Sunday.
‘The budget was not prepared for new poor, existing poor and also for informal sector,’ he said at a media briefing on ‘national budget 2021-2022: what is there for the disadvantaged people’ organised by the platform.
The budget has offered more for organised and large business sector and much less for middle class, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and the groups that are left behind, he said.
The government has set the next fiscals revenue target at Tk 3.89 trillion, which is achievable considering the countrys economic volume and the number of people with taxable income, experts have said. Experts have also stressed the need for modernization of Value Added Tax (VAT)
Finance ministry taking steps to create new employments and provide job security Around 1.4 million people have temporarily lost their jobs due to the lockdown and restrictions imposed during second wave of the pandemic, said a government policy statement released Thursday. Due to the
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The government will continue to carry out a number of reforms in NBR revenue management in the next fiscal year in a bid to raise revenue income to the expected level. For proper implementation of VAT Law that came into effect from July 2019, necessary manpower, equipment and logistics will