Real-Estate & Infrastructure

Steel prices jumped 17 per cent in the last one month as millers hiked the rates in the wake of spiralling scrap prices in the international market, which will make the implementation of public construction projects and home building costlier.

Experts at a webinar on Saturday said policymakers should put extra emphasis on education, youth employment, poverty, and gender issues in the 8th five-year plan considering changes in the sectors caused by the pandemic.

The industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi has created job opportunities for 1,505 people in various trades in the last 2019-2020 fiscal year that showing the progress of 114 percent.

The ‘National Income Tax Day-2019’ will be observed on Monday across the country aiming to create awareness among the people for payment of income tax regularly.

Says Walton MD Golam Murshed in an interview recently

Some 29 Bangladeshi trade professionals were awarded certificates of ‘Export Launchpad Bangladesh’ as part of the initiative of widening doors for SME exporters in Bangladesh to the global markets. Export Launchpad Bangladesh is an international trade capacity building and market access support programme in Bangladesh.

The contract manufacturers will enjoy a simplified VAT process for the production and supply of goods under a new guideline.

With only two working days remaining for filing income tax return, taxpayers are in a hurry to gather and prepare related documents. 

The revenue authority has reinstated the opportunity for motorcycle assemblers to import painted completely knocked-down components of two-wheelers.

The state-owned Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has reduced the service charges under the registered exporter system of the European Union following the demand from apparel makers, officials say.