Rashed Khan, general secretary

of the People's Rights Council, has commented that the opportunity to whiten black money in the budget is unconstitutional and discriminatory.

He made these comments at a press conference on the budget response announced for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year at the party's central office on Wednesday at 11:30 am.

Rashed Khan said that the budget for the upcoming 2025-2026 fiscal year announced during the term of the interim government has the imprint of the budget of the previous period. As always, this time too, the budget will have a deficit of Tk 2.26 trillion. Which will be met from bank loans and foreign grants. That is, foreign dependence has not been reduced in this budget either.

He said, the opportunity to whiten black

money in the budget is unconstitutional and discriminatory. Besides, the opportunity to whiten black money in the purchase of apartments, flats and construction of buildings is in no way acceptable. The post-coup government cannot take such a policy-abiding decision that paying a certain amount of tax will be considered as an explanation of the source of the money.

Rashed also said that the budget allocation of Tk 405 crore for the martyrs and injured in the July Revolution is a positive aspect. However, since the fighters have not been provided with proper treatment, rehabilitation, or compensation even after 10 months, doubts remain as to whether this allocation will be used properly or not!

'The tax-free income limit of 525,000 taka for July warriors is very historic.'

The General Secretary of the People's

Rights Council said that although the target of collecting revenue of Tk 4.99 lakh crore from the NBR in the current fiscal year was not met, it was not met. There are no new proposals in the upcoming budget to meet that target level either.

Rashed said that in this year's budget, 1 lakh 22 thousand crore taka has been allocated for interest expenditure. Which is 5 billion taka more than in the current fiscal year. That is, more allocation has been made for interest expenditure due to the possibility of increasing the burden of domestic and foreign debt.