BSS-09 Boosting revenue collection for country’s development stressed

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CUSTOMS-DISCUSSION (with picture)

Boosting revenue collection for country’s development stressed

RAJSHAHI, Jan 26, 2018 (BSS) – Speakers at a post-rally discussion today
underscored the need for boosting revenue earnings for country’s overall
development.

They said proper functioning of the country’s business sector and other
trade-related activities are the precondition to uplift the economic growth.
There is no alternative to expand trade and business to a greater extent
taking the country forward on the way to development, they added.

Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate organised the discussion at
Rajshahi Medical College Auditorium in the city to mark the International
Customs Day-2018. “Revenue is the oxygen of development and Revenue for
Peoples Welfare” was the main theme of the discussion.

Member of Parliament Hossain Badsha and Member of National Board of
Revenue Ziauddin Mahmud addressed the discussion as chief and special guests
respectively with Muazzem Hossain, Commissioner of Customs, Excise and VAT
Commissionerate, Rajshahi, in the chair.

Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Aminul Islam, BGB Sector
Commander Col Gazi Sazzad, Income Tax Commissioner Dr Khandaker Ferdous Alam,
Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Sarder Tamij Uddin
Ahmed, Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police Masudur Rahman Bhuiyan
and President of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industries Moniruzzaman
also spoke.

Laying stress on enhancing revenue collection from both internal and
external sources, speakers said it could be the effective means of reducing
dependency on foreign aid for executing the uplift programmes.

Importance should be given on creating mass awareness about more revenue
collection for making the country economically self-reliant, they added.

In observance of the day, officials and staffs of the commissionerate
organised a huge rally that paraded the city’s main thoroughfares, carrying
placards, banners and festoons.

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