The government has issued a revised ordinance on the split of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) into two separate divisions paving the way for revenue officials to head the top and senior positions of the Revenue Policy Division.

The National Board of Revenue has found assets worth nearly Tk 40,000 crore in five countries which it believes were bought with money laundered from Bangladesh, said the Chief Adviser’s Office yesterday.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday cautioned taxpayers about misleading social media posts promoting the filing of "zero returns", terming the practice illegal under the Income Tax Act 2023.

The move comes just over two weeks after the revenue authority imposed the tax to increase collection

The government has suspended 14 more officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) for defying transfer orders and allegedly tearing up their transfer letters in public.

The National Board of Revenue will certainly be split once the flaws in the ordinance are corrected, said Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, accusing its drafters of “deliberately inserting loopholes” through “trickery”.

Major customs houses across Bangladesh, including that in Chattogram, have been facing delays in processing exports and imports for days now due to recurring slowdowns in the server that handles the records.

ACC opens investigations into five more officials over alleged graft

The order, signed by NBR Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan, was issued on Monday

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) made the online submission of export-import related certificates, licences, and permits (CLPs) compulsory from yesterday.

Following a stern government warning and mounting pressure from the country’s top business leaders, officials of the National Board of Revenue have withdrawn their shutdown.

The strike crippled activities at customs and ports, affecting exports, imports, and businesses.

NBR shutdown continues, demanding chairman's removal by protesting officials

Vowing to continue an indefinite work stoppage and stage a protest march on tax offices, the NBR Reform Unity Council has intensified its demands

Import and export activities at ports suffered yesterday as National Board of Revenue (NBR) officials enforced a complete shutdown to press home their demands, defying the government’s call to withdraw the strike and threat of disciplinary action.

Leaders of the country’s top business chambers and trade bodies yesterday expressed deep concern over the ongoing work stoppage by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) officials, which has brought export and import activities to a standstill due to suspended customs operations at ports.

The suspension has caused immense sufferings to service seekers, while apparel exporters fear significant financial losses due to shipment delays

The protest started at 9:00am, with a large number of NBR officials participating from across the country, disrupting exports and imports activities

Protesting National Board of Revenue officials have announced an all-out shutdown from Saturday if the tax authority’s chairman is not removed by today.

Officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have threatened an indefinite nationwide shutdown from Saturday unless the NBR chairman is removed and recent transfer orders for revenue officials are revoked.