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MCCI pushes for corporate tax cut

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), on Sunday, demanded reduction of corporate tax, increasing tax-free ceiling for individual taxpayers, and waiving the provision for imposing double tax on companies.The MCCI leaders also proposed setting up a time-limit for the taxmen to issue tax withholding certificate for facilitating foreign...

Petrobangla gets Tk 10b in subsidies

State-run Petrobangla has received subsidies worth Tk 10 billion from the government to foot LNG import bills, its first since purchase started.The amount of subsidy is, however, around one-third of Petrobangls's requirement for the payment against import of liquefied natural gas, the corporation's director for finance Harun-or-Rashid told the FE...

UK minister for adhering to democratic values

A visiting British state minister attached on Sunday importance to Bangladesh's adherence to democratic values as the country graduates to the middle income status.Mr Field said both the nations will be able to achieve their future goals if they stay true to the democratic values. "As a friend of Bangladesh...

Exports exceed target, fetch $30.9b in nine months

Earnings from the country's merchandise exports in the first nine months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, increased to US$ 30.90 billion, registering a modest growth of about 13 per cent over the same period of the previous fiscal.The country fetched $27.45 billion during the July-March period of FY...

Despite a ban on the sale of jatka

Despite a ban on the sale of jatka, the small fry of delicious silvery hilsa is available aplenty on the open market. The picture was taken at a kitchen market in the capital's Gendaria neighbourhood on Sunday — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam

News Watch- (08-04-2019)

Madrasa girl in critical condition at DMCHThe condition of the female madrasa student from Feni, who suffered 80 per cent burns, is critical, doctors said Sunday. A seven-member medical board, formed by the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, examined the girl. The madrasa management committee has decided to provide Tk 2,00,000...