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Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has demanded three percent cash incentive for the garment sector in the budget for 2019-20.

An EFD is a device which procures the digital record of every sale and instantly sends the data to a central server automatically, so as to prevent any chance of manipulation

India will impose higher retaliatory tariffs on 28 US products including almonds, apples and walnuts from Sunday, following Washington’s withdrawal of key trade privileges for New Delhi.

‘Ekti Bari Ekti Khamar’, one of the ten priority initiatives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, designed to bringing country’s poverty rate zero, has got momentum after refreshing the project as ‘Amar Bari Amar Khamar ‘ aimed at attaining SDGs by 2030.

As President Donald Trump’s trade wars drag on, and the global economy weakens, the US Federal Reserve is inching closer to its first interest rate cut in more than a decade.

President Donald Trump likes to take credit for the US economy, with historic low unemployment and few signs of rising prices, but his promises that surging growth would pay for massive tax cuts are falling flat.

The government placed Tk.5.23 trillion budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 in the parliament on Thursday. Some highlights of the proposed budget are given bellow:

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) said on Friday the higher revenue collection target would create pressure on existing taxpayers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned Friday of stringent measures against private banks who are defying the directive to lower the interest rate to single-digit. “We’re always in favour of single-digit rate of interest,” she said.

E-CAB members to hold emergency meeting on Saturday Online shopping is set to get costlier as the government has proposed imposing 7.5% value added tax on the sector in the proposed budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year.