Launch Campaigns to Increase Tax : PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to launch campaigns at the grassroots level and motivate people to pay taxes as the country's socio-economic condition has improved radically in the last 14 years.

 

"If you carry out campaigns there [at the upazila and union levels] in a good manner, people will spontaneously come forward [to pay tax]. They [taxpayers] are now getting services. So, people will pay tax to avail the services," Hasina added.

 

At the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka, The Prime Minister made this comment while inaugurating the Revenue Conference 2023.

 

The NBR organized the two-day conference, which is the first of its kind, to advance the country's revenue management system.

 

Hasina then said the socioeconomic condition of the people of the country, including grassroots people, has observed a dramatic change in the last 14 years. "So, there are people at the upazila and even union levels that have the capacity to pay tax," she added.

 

In this context, she asked all the capable people of the country to pay taxes as the government would spend the money to enhance services for them.

 

NBR chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem and NBR members Abdul Mannan Shikder and Pradyut Kumar Sarkar spoke on the occasion.

 

PM OPENS NEW REVENUE BHABAN

 

On Sunday, the premier opened the newly constructed Revenue Bhaban in the city's Agargaon area, which would be used as the NBR head office.

 

She unveiled the name Plaque of the 12-storeyed building and visited the Revenue Bhaban in the morning. The Public Works Department constructed the modern and eye-catching building at a cost of Tk 412 crore. 

 

The NBR will fully start their office in the new structure from March 1, 2023. N. Hussain/JC