The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted value-added tax on the fares of Dhaka metro rail, which has gained a lot of popularity since the beginning of its operations.

Bangladesh’s direct tax expenditure, a tax subsidy that includes rebates, exemptions, and reduced rates offered by the revenue authorities, fell 8 percent year-on-year to Tk 1.15 lakh crore in fiscal 2021-22, according to the tax expenditure estimation report..The National Board of Revenue

The Bangladesh economy saw its lowest quarterly growth in three-and-a-half years in the first quarter of the fiscal year on the back of political upheaval and severe flood in August.

Defaulted loans at the country’s non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) reached a record 36 percent of all loans disbursed by them as of September 2024, a level that sector people described as a reflection of “massive irregularities and scams” seven to eight years ago.

Bangladesh concluded another year staring at prices of essential items taking a wild ride, the central bank scrambling to further tighten the money supply and penny-pinching among limited income people.

Gold prices retreated on Monday as US Treasury yields firmed, while investors’ attention turned to economic data for clues on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate trajectory in 2025 after the central bank flagged a slower pace of rate cuts this year.

The eurozone economy ended 2024 in a fragile state, according a survey which showed overall activity contracted for a second straight month in December as a modest recovery in the services industry failed to offset a deeper downturn in manufacturing.

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In spite of turbulent times prevailing both at home and abroad, garment exports from Bangladesh grew in 2024 by 7.23 percent year-on-year to $38.48 billion, according to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB)..This is due to an increasing demand for clothing with the fall of inflation in major

The NBR will increase supplementary duty on mobile phone usage by 3 percentage points

The exports of fresh vegetables decreased 57.93 percent year-on-year in the first six months of the current fiscal year, official figures showed..Vegetables fetched $70.36 million in the July-December period of fiscal year 2023-24, and in the same period of fiscal year 2024-25 it was $29.6

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The benchmark index of the Dhaka bourse rose 0.65% today

Protests by Indian truck operators over online slot-booking issues caused the disruption

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Arrival of winter vegetables contributes to the decline 

The DSEX, the premier index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), was up 0.13 percent as of 11 am today

People are switching to shampoo mini-packs from regular bottles, women are sacrificing their tiny luxuries of cosmetic puffs while households are embracing cheap but substandard detergents for laundry: this is exactly what happens when brutal price pressures push around 78 lakh people below the poverty line in just two years and stalk another 1 crore to do so.

The dollar dipped on Friday but was on track for its strongest weekly performance in a month on expectations that the US economy will continue to outperform its peers globally this year and that US interest rates will stay relatively higher.

The 14th edition of the International Garment Accessories and Packaging Expo (GAPEXPO) 2025 will be held in Dhaka from January 8 to 11.