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Related Keywords: Bangladesh textile millers, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association, compared to last fiscal year, dyeing, forty percent up, millers went for business expansion, prevailing political stability, printing and finishing mills, rise in machinery imports, spinning, weaving

Bangladesh textile millers have imported machinery worth TK71.19 billion in the fiscal year of 2014-15, a short up by over 40 percent compared to Tk50.63 billion in the last fiscal year of 2013-14 as many millers went for business expansion, said Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) president Tapan Chowdhury speaking a press conference on Tuesday. The rise in machinery imports is attributed to the prevailing political stability.

Related Keywords: Bangladesh exporter, BJMA, BTMA, cash incentives, continue special income tax rate, cut down or waive off, dying, for primary textile sectors, higher licence fees, National Board of Revenue, printing and finishing mills, spinning, tax at source on export earnings, weaving

Bangladesh exporters yearn for tax at source on export earnings and tax on cash incentives to be waived or cut down in the budget for fiscal year 2015-16 to make it uniform for all exporters, as it is not a profit of the exporters.

The exporters, textile mills, jute and plastic sectors proposed to the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to cut tax at source on export to 0.30 per cent from existing 0.60 per cent.

Currently, apparel exporters are enjoying 0.30 percent tax rates on export bill while others are paying 0.60 per cent