Author: TI Bangladesh

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed concern over the hasty issuance of the ordinance abolishing the National Board of Revenue (NBR) and creating two separate divisions for revenue policy and revenue management, warning that this move risks placing revenue management under the control of the executive branch. While the initiative was undertaken based on a logical rationale to separate revenue policy and revenue management in order to ensure policy independence, transparency, accountability, increase the tax-to-GDP ratio, and achieve revenue collection targets, it ultimately fails to allow the minimum degree of autonomy that revenue management should enjoy from the executive. The…