Cabinet decides e-payment for court fees

The government is going to introduce e-payment system for disbursement of the court fees, amending the existing law which allows such payment through stamps and cash on receipt. In this regard the Cabinet in its weekly meeting on Monday has given approval to draft of "The Court Fees (Amendment) Act, 2015. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held at cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad. Briefing reporters at the Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain said the e-payment method would reduce huge public expenditure for printing, preservation and transportation of the stamps apart from shrinking public sufferings and curbing forgery. Any violation of the law would be an offense for six-month imprisonment and penalty of Taka 50,000 which is now only Tk. 500, he said. In another move the cabinet has given approval to a draft making the "The Value Added Tax (VAT) and Supplementary Duty Act-2012" more flexible raising the limit of annual turnover of companies to Taka 3.0 million from 2.40 million to get VAT exemption, according to BSS.