Bangladesh, June 19 -- The country's private sector is paying meagre salaries to their most of the employees, making their life miserable, National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said on Monday.

"But they pay extremely high salaries to very few top officials and foreign employees," he said while speaking at a post-budget programme organised by Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB).

Dhaka Branch Council of ICMAB organised the post- budget roundtable discussion titled "Tax, Tariff and Trade Policies for Inclusive Economic Growth" on its campus in the city.

Responding to a demand for reducing the government's administrative expenditure by a private sector businessman, the NBR chairm...