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Khaleda Zia converted her black money into white by paying Taka 30 Lakh fine: Shahriar Kabir

editor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:56:58 +0000

President of ‘war criminal eradication committee’ (Ghatok Dalal Nirmul committee), Shahriar Kabir said, Khaleda Zia converted her black money into white by paying Taka 30 Lakh fine. Only because caretaker government came into power people got to know about crores of Taka being smuggled abroad by Tarek Rahman and Coco.

'Money whitening' period cut down to 1 year

priyo.news — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:04:02 +0000

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Amid widespread criticism, Finance Minister AMA Muhith today told the parliament that the period for whitening black money would be reduced to one year from proposed three years.

Most black money was made during last caretaker govt

priyo.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:44:04 +0000

Industries Minister Dilip Barua slammed yesterday the last caretaker government in presence of its two advisers, saying that people's, especially businessmen's, huge money was 'extorted' taking them 'captive' during its two-year regime.

Muhith slams critics over 'money whitening'

priyo.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:32:28 +0000

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Minister AMA Muhith today came down hard on those who were critical of the provision for whitening black money saying many of them had whitened their money in the past.

Muhith gives new money-whitening formula

priyo.com — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:16:22 +0000

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Finance Minister AMA Muhith today gave a new formula to whiten money saying both black money holders and honest taxpayers could be allowed to invest in specific sectors at a flat rate of tax.

Money whitening provision to be modified

priyo.com — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:38:50 +0000

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Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday hinted at modifying the budgetary provision allowing amnesty to whiten black money and doing something about tax imposed on mobile phone sets in the new budget.

Govt may cut money-whitening offer period for capital market

priyo.news — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:04:17 +0000

The government is set to cut its money-whitening offer period only for the share markets, bowing to a massive outcry the proposed 'out-of-the-box' fiscal measure has generated since last week's budget speech.

Whitening of black money under fire in JS

priyo.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:25 +0000

BNP chairperson and opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia came under sharp attacks and bitter criticism by the treasury bench members, as the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) yesterday opened general debate over the national budget for fiscal 2009-10 amidst continued abstention by the opposition members.

Money-whitening proposal misinterpreted: Muhith

priyo.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:55:43 +0000

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Finance Minister AMA Muhith today said his proposal to allow whitening of undisclosed money in exchange for 10 percent tax within three years has been interpreted wrongly.

2 lakh crore taka 'black'

editor — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:04:08 +0000

The country has around 2 lakh crore taka of unclaimed or black money. This is around 6 times the government investments and around one third of the total GDP. Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries gave us this information.