Terming the proposed budget “traditional”, Raushon Ershad, leader of the opposition in the parliament, says there is nothing new in it.

Owners of two motor cars or houses with an aggregate area of eight thousand square feet in a city corporation will have to pay 10 percent surcharge, Finance Minister AMA Muhith says in his budget speech.

There is nothing new for individual taxpayers in the upcoming fiscal as the Finance Minister opted to stick to his previous stance.

The government allocates Tk 1,498 crore for the Youth and Sports Ministry in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19, Tk 307 crore up from the revised budget of the last fiscal year.

The government proposes raising allocation in the education sector by 11 percent to Tk 53,054 crore for the next fiscal year compared to the revised allocation in the outgoing fiscal year.

Energy drink and cigarette-bidi papers prices are expected to go up with the additional supplementary duty proposed in the budget for fiscal 2018-19.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes to allocate Tk 400 crore in 2018-19 fiscal to support insolvent war-wounded and sick freedom-fighters or their spouses, children or grand-children.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes to borrow Tk 42,029 crore from the banking sources to manage the deficit financing.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes changes to duties on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes a Tk1,37,742 crore allocation for women's development in the fiscal year 2018-19, which is 29.65 per cent of the total budget and 5.34 per cent of the GDP.

Corporate tax for the readymade garments units will be hiked to 15 per cent, what Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes in his budget for fiscal 2018-19.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes to keep a block allocation of Tk 300 crores for managing risks arising out of earthquake.

Resorts, hotels and businesses will have to use electronic fiscal devices (EFD) from the next fiscal year -- a move the revenue authorities have taken to combat value-added tax evasion.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith becomes the first finance minister in Bangladesh history to present 10 consecutive national budgets.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith today proposes to re-impose 25 per cent customs duty and 3 per cent regulatory duty on rice imports to protect the farmers as the country got a bumper paddy production in the boro season.

The government will spend Tk 51,340 crore for interest payment in the upcoming fiscal year which is 11 percent of total proposed budget of Tk 4,64,573 crore.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith sets a goal to allocate 20 percent of total budget for children by 2020 as part of mainstreaming children development in the national planning and budgeting.

Fresh duty schemes have been drawn up on cosmetics and toiletries items, which is expected to push the prices of such items higher.

The government has set a target of 7.8 per cent GDP growth for the next fiscal year.

Allocation for the telecom and ICT ministry declines about 6.64 per cent to 6,064 crore in the proposed budget of 2018-19 fiscal which is placed by Finance Minister MA Muhith at the Jatiya Sangsad.