Towards a tax payer-friendly environment

There is a general perception that the existing income tax regulations in Bangladesh are British in birth, too much intricate in attitude and cumbersome for enforcement. Though taxation, as an influential instrument for revenue income for the state, was very much there in ancient and medieval India in different forms,...

'Great leap forward': What Bangladesh does in 2020 will be pivotal

With a 7.7 per cent growth-rate, as predicted in the Economist, Bangladesh has only one country ahead of it: no, it is not China (6.1 per cent), nor India (6.7 per cent), but a surprising war-ravaged Syria (with 8.9 per cent). More in the business community may prefer investing in...