Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said target has been set to identify over 9.60 lakh new tax payers in the current fiscal year.
The Finance Minister said this while responding to a query raised by treasury bench lawmaker M Abdul Latif of Chattogram-11 at the question -answer session which was tabled at the Jatiya Sangsad here with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
“The government has already identified 8,27,346 new tax-payers against its target of 9,60,817 new tax payers in the current fiscal,” he told the parliament.
Replying to another query made by another treasury bench lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury of Bhola-3, the finance minister told the parliament that country’s foreign reserve now has reached 29.66 billion US$ as per the estimate prepared on June 13 this year.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha