NBR launches special investigation against tax evaders

The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Thursday started special investigation operations against suspicious individuals and firms including business tycoons of the country for their amassment of illegal wealth through various means.

The CIC has already completed lists of such suspicious tax evaders on the basis of various published media reports and specific secret information, said a statement of the NBR, reports BSS.

It said that punitive measures alongside prompt steps would be taken for recovering such evaded tax through conducting drives against such individuals and firms under the Income Tax Act, 2023 and Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012.

In continuation of this, the CIC of the NBR has already started operations to unearth the tax evasion information by leading industrialists like BEXIMCO Group co-founder and vice chairman Salman F Rahman, NASSA Group Chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder, Summit Group Chairman Muhammad Aziz Khan, Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and Orion Group Chairman Obaidul Karim and other concerned people associated with them.

In this regard, letters have been sent to various banks and financial institutions, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), National Savings Directorate and other related offices seeking information on bank accounts of such suspicious tax evaders.

The revenue board statement said that such investigation operations of the CIC would continue.