Calls for promoting ECR machine in business establishments
Friday, 19 December 2008
RAJSHAHI, Dec 18 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here Thursday called upon the business community to extend wholehearted cooperation in using Electronic Cash Registrar (ECR) machine in the business establishments for the sake of speedy disposal of accounts side by side with accurate collection of Value Added Tax (VAT).
Highlighting the salient features of the machine, they viewed that the manual process in the business activities especially accounts should be replaced with the modern technology to bring dynamism along with making the trade activities profitable.
Rajshahi Commissionerate of Customs, Excise and VAT arranged the workshop on using ECR machine at Nanking Darbar Hall. About 100 persons including businessmen and customs officials and staff attended the workshop and exchanged their views on successful promotion of the machine.
Customs Commissioner Lutfor Rahman, Additional Commissioners Dr Golam Muhammad Monir and Hafizur Rahman and Joint Commissioner Wahidul Alam addressed the workshop as resource persons.
Speakers urged the business community to help make the process successful so that the government could achieve the VAT collection target for implementing the development programmes smoothly. "Businessmen are the driving force for strengthening foundation of the state economy," they said.
They also said that the government had launched the process for the first time in the country aimed at bringing transparency in the tax-collection system at the businessmen level along with making the relation between the tax collectors and the taxpayers closer and cordial. The businessmen were solely responsible for making the process a complete success.
Highlighting the salient features of the machine, they viewed that the manual process in the business activities especially accounts should be replaced with the modern technology to bring dynamism along with making the trade activities profitable.
Rajshahi Commissionerate of Customs, Excise and VAT arranged the workshop on using ECR machine at Nanking Darbar Hall. About 100 persons including businessmen and customs officials and staff attended the workshop and exchanged their views on successful promotion of the machine.
Customs Commissioner Lutfor Rahman, Additional Commissioners Dr Golam Muhammad Monir and Hafizur Rahman and Joint Commissioner Wahidul Alam addressed the workshop as resource persons.
Speakers urged the business community to help make the process successful so that the government could achieve the VAT collection target for implementing the development programmes smoothly. "Businessmen are the driving force for strengthening foundation of the state economy," they said.
They also said that the government had launched the process for the first time in the country aimed at bringing transparency in the tax-collection system at the businessmen level along with making the relation between the tax collectors and the taxpayers closer and cordial. The businessmen were solely responsible for making the process a complete success.