Reconditioned vehicle importers yesterday ruled out allegations of dodging government tax on imports.

Some newspapers reported last week that a quarter of reconditioned car importers had dodged Tk 4 crore in tax on importing about 650 vehicles, mostly in July, the first month of the current fiscal year.

The regional office of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution here has taken up a Tk 100 crore project to install a modern laboratory to test standards of products.

BSTI sources said at the regional office, they can test only 49 out of 152 products under their supervision due to lack of equipment. They were being compelled to send the rests of items to Dhaka for testing standards.

Non-tariff barriers to trade between South Asian countries are still a major hindrance to expected regional cooperation under the SAARC forum, thanks to relations and mistrust and attitude of the region’s ‘big fishes’.

The government will again reduce the petroleum prices if there be a continuous downturn on the international market that made a tailspin following the recent financial meltdown.

US Senator John McCain is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month early as part of a broader regional trip, according to US Embassy in Dhaka. Sources said, Senator McCain would be accompanied by Senator Joseph Lieberman and Senator Lindsey Graham.

President Prof Dr Iajuddin Ahmed on Friday stressed on preserving the glorious history of the Liberation War of 1971.

The Government has put police and law enforcing agencies on red alert yesterday to avert any untoward situation at any place in the country.

The police headquarters also have asked police personnel, on leave to report to their respective units immediately.

A verbal order to this effect was given from the police headquarters to all units.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) apparently tightened monetary policy by raising the money purchase rate by 0.25 percentage points yesterday.

The central bank hiked the reverse repo rate to 6.75 percent from 6.50 percent after a two-year pause.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will enforce the use of electronic cash registers in divisional headquarters from January 1 and launch special drives to increase income tax and VAT collection amid global economic meltdown.

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