Complete shutdown to continue: NBR Reform Council

Demanding removal of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman and inclusive reforms in the revenue sector, protesting officials and employees have announced that the complete shutdown and March to NBR programmes will continue today (Sunday) as well.

The NBR Reform Unity Council made the announcement on Saturday at a press briefing held at the gate of the NBR headquarters.

Earlier on the day, officials under the banner of NBR Reform Unity Council launched the "Complete Shutdown and March to NBR" programmes. Officers from Dhaka and across the country gathered in front of the NBR building in the capital from the morning.

Meanwhile, business leaders held a press conference at a hotel in Dhaka to address the overall situation.

Responding to the business community's statement, Council President Hasan Muhammad Tarek Rikabder said, "The business community claims that the removal of the NBR Chairman is not desirable and won't lead to any solution. We regret that they did not clarify in their press release why they believed the removal of a bureaucrat -- an accomplice of the past fallen fascist regime -- was undesirable. However, we have already explained, through previous and today's statements, to the business community and the nation why the removal of NBR Chairman Abdur Rahman Khan is essential for full, genuine, sustainable, and practical reform of the revenue system."

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