The prices of refrigerator, online sale, mobile phone, soap and plastic goods along with a number of other products would witness a hike in the 2025-26 financial year due to tax measures in the proposed budget for FY26.
Bangladesh interim government finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday announced the new national budget with an overall expenditure outlay of Tk 7.9 lakh crore.
The proposed budget for the financial year 2025-26 contains Tk 41,908 crore in allocation to the health and family welfare sector. The allocation is 5.3 per cent of the proposed total budget worth Tk7.9 lakh crore.
The transport and communication sector has received the highest allocation in the development component of the proposed national budget for the 2025–2026 financial year.
The share of education in gross domestic product fell again for the sixth year in a row, which is evident from the proposed national budget for the financial year 2025–26.
Bangladesh interim government finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has started placing a Tk 7,90,000 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2025–26 which is 12.7 per cent of the GDP.
The budget allocation for the entire education sector increased by Tk 933 crore in the proposed national budget for the financial year 2025–2026.
The national budget for the financial year 2025-26, with an overall outlay of about Tk 7.9 lakh crore, will be announced today amid expectations for prudent fiscal measures in line with the spirit of the July mass uprising that ousted the autocratic Awami League regime...
Bangladesh interim government finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed is likely to unveil a Taka 7,90,000 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2025–26 (FY26) on Monday highlighting key issues like creating new employments, reducing inflation, facilitating trade and commerce and restoring economic stability alongside fiscal discipline.
The Finance Division will publish national budget-related documents for the fiscal year 2025-26 on its official website, immediately after the budget speech concludes on Monday...
The Finance Division will have to put aside a substantial amount of fund to make the interest payment for loans taken from domestic and external sources over the past one and a half decades.
FOR a nation that dreams of becoming smart and progressive, Bangladesh’s educational budget is anything but intelligent. Year after year, we manage the impossible: allocating the lowest proportion of GDP to education in all of South Asia. That’s not a passing trend; that’s an institutional achievement in national self-sabotage, if you will...
Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue Debapriya Bhattacharya on Saturday said as there are no significant initiatives for recovering defaulted loans, bringing back laundered money, or expanding the tax net there’s no real surprise in the proposed budget...
Leaders of Bangladesh Khetmajur Samiti at a rally in Dhaka on Friday demanded sufficient allocation for the farm labourers in the upcoming budget.
The interim government is going to increase the tax-free income limit to Tk 3,75,000 and make changes in the individual income tax payment structure in the national budget for the forthcoming financial year of 2025-26, said finance ministry officials.
University Grants Commission Bangladesh member Professor Masuma Habib said that a research-friendly budget would further advance education and research. This would inspire future generations in agricultural research and newly invented technologies could be applied in the agricultural sector of Bangladesh...
A HIGH allocation for women in the budget and the stringent oversight of the allocation can ensure a proper use of the budget funds meant for spending on women to attend to gender inequality. In the light of such a proposition, participants in a pre-budget dialogue, ‘Advancing gender-responsive budgeting FFD4 Outcome’ that the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs...
Improving monitoring of the allocations under the gender responsive budget, a tool used for addressing gender inequality, is needed to ensure proper utilisation of budgetary funds meant for women, discussants said at a pre-budget dialogue on Monday...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has urged the interim government to focus on damage control in the upcoming national budget instead of continuing with current policies...
The finance ministry is expected to allocate a higher amount of fund, over Tk 5,000 crore, to the Election Commission in the 2025-26 financial year budget for the purpose of holding next national election and local government polls, ministry officials said.
Academics, researchers and rights activists on Friday said that the next national budget should focus on increasing the country’s human resource capacity to reduce import and dependency on foreign skills.
Leader of Samajtantrik Khetmajur O Krishak Front on Thursday at a rally in Dhaka demanded 40 per cent of the development allocation for the agricultural sector in the forthcoming budget for fiscal 2025-26...
BANGLADESH continues to face significant challenges in ensuring quality education, universally recognised as the cornerstone of national development, for all. Despite commendable progress in the enrolment rate, the dropout rate remains high, especially among girls and in marginalised communities while learning outcomes lag behind regional peers. The key to...
Civil society organisations on Monday expressed concern over the declining budget allocations for water, sanitation and hygiene...
Speakers in a discussion on Monday expressed dissatisfaction over the preparations for the upcoming national budget with flawed assumptions of the gross domestic product made by the Awami League regime ousted by a popular uprising in the past year.
Chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Saturday asked the Finance Division to ensure that every allocation under the budget is properly spent.
Rights organisation Nari Unnayan Shakti has called for increased national budget allocation and the introduction of a separate budget for women and children with disabilities...
A dialogue in the capital underscored the importance of strategic planning and effective implementation to unlock broader development outcomes for the country, said a press release...
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that the forthcoming national budget for the 2025-26 financial year would be a realistic one and there would be no printing of money for meeting the budget deficit...
The SME Foundation has proposed unified 10 per cent VAT for SME sector industries and 1.0 per cent surcharge on profit gain in the upcoming national budget of FY26...
