ICMAB arranges post-budget discussion


FE Online Desk | Published: June 26, 2018 15:22:37 | Updated: November 05, 2021 13:02:04


ICMAB arranges post-budget discussion

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) organised a Post-Budget Discussion Session on National Budget 2018-2019 on Monday at the ICMAB Ruhul Quddus Auditorium, Dhaka.

 

Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, MP, Minister of Housing & Public Works, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh attended the Session as Chief Guest while Mr. C. Q. K. Mustaq Ahmed, Chairman, Financial Reporting Council (FRC) was present as Special Guest.

 

President of ICMAB Mr. Mohammed Salim FCMA presided over the programme.

Mr. Ranjan Kumar Bhowmik FCMA, Commissioner of Taxes, Taxes Zone-7, Dhaka  and , Mr. Md. Abdur Rahman Khan FCMA, Deputy Secretary, Finance Division, Ministry of Finance presented the paper as Resource Persons.

 

Mr. Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled, Former Deputy Governor, Bangladesh Bank, Dr. Jamaluddin Ahmed FCA, Member, Board of Directors, Bangladesh Bank & Past President, ICAB, Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur, Executive Director, Policy Research Institute, Dr. Mohammed Helal Uddin, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Mr. Kanan Kumar Roy, Member (Tax Policy), National Board of Revenue (NBR) spoke on the occasion as commentators on the paper.

 

Past President, ICMAB and CEO & Managing Director, IDLC Finance Ltd. Mr. Arif Khan FCMA was present as moderator at the programme.

Mr. Md. Kausar Alam FCMA, Vice-Chairman Seminar & Conference Committee delivered the welcome speech, said a statement.

 

The minister said people want to pay taxes, but due to system losses, taxes are not being collected accordingly. If the tax was properly collected then the national budget would have been much larger. He suggested to use the electronic cash registration machine for this. He said, using the electronic cash registration machine will help earn more revenue.

 

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