UNB, Dhaka

The revenue collection of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) suffered in the first three months of the running 2024-25 fiscal.

The total collection in this period, the first quarter or Q1, saw a 6.1 per cent fall compared to the same tenure of the last fiscal.

According to the released data by the revenue collecting authority, the total revenue collection target for the first three months of the fiscal (July-September) was Tk 96,499.90 crore, but it managed to collect Tk 70,902.90 crore. In the last fiscal, the corresponding amount was Tk 75,487.70 crore.

According to the data, the revenue collection target for September was Tk 39,324 crore. But NBR managed to collect only Tk 29,002.68 crore.