Tax justice

13th April 2013, Civil society organizations in Chittagong urge the government to reduce the burden of VAT which fall heavily on the poor and demand to give more priority on the direct taxes from people who can afford it. A seminar held in the Press Club in Chittagong on Saturday, 13th...

Dhaka, 15th September 2012. Today in a seminar held in national press club organized by EquityBD a civil society network of right groups in Bangladesh, and other policy makers has criticize IMF (International Monetary Fund) for pursuing discredited tax policy in Bangladesh. They urged government to reconsider new VAT...

Dhaka, 29th May 2012. Today seventeen civil society rights group networks and organizations in a rally and human chain organized in front of national press club, Dhaka termed the Black Politics is the prime source of black money and tax injustice in the country. They urged government to expand...

Dhaka, 29th December 2011. Today Equity and Justice Working Group (EquityBD) an alliance of right based civil society organization in a press conference in national press club, termed the recent International Monitory Fund (IMF)’s conditionality to government for approving new Value Added Tax (VAT) expansion law as a discredited...

20 November 2011. Today in a workshop, speakers termed VAT as a burden for the poor. They suggested the direct tax as a strong and effective mean of resource mobilization. They were speaking at a workshop jointly organized by equityBD, Tax Justice Network, Voice, INCIDIN Bangladesh and Rupantar. The...

Dhaka, 19th April 2011. Today thirteen right based civil society organizations leaded by EquityBD protested government plan to take 1 Bln $ loan and fulfillment of its conditionality, they urged government not to take the loan as such conditionality especially money contraction and VAT expansion are anti poor and...