Govt confiscated funds of Regent Airways to realise dues

The government has confiscated funds in a bank account of Regent Airways to collect dues, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told parliament yesterday. 

In response to a question from Awami League MP Mohammad Habib Hasan, the minister said Regent Airways owes the government Tk 32.46 crore in travel taxes but Tk 1.37 crore has been recovered from the account.

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Hasan wanted to know whether there were any unpaid dues of travel tax of any domestic airline. He also wanted to know what steps the government has taken to collect the dues.

Due to Regent Airways being shut down, the dues have remained unpaid, said the finance minister.

In the wake of the global spread of the novel coronavirus, Regent Airways postponed all its international and domestic flight operations in 2020.

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury chaired yesterday's question-answer session in parliament.