Bangladesh, Jan. 28 -- The National Board of Revenue, or NBR, has decided to honour the consumers considering the uses of invoices generated by electronic fiscal device.
The VAT online project will award consumers by conducting a lottery among them so that they can be encouraged to collect electronic bills from shops.
The revenue board will issue a circular after finalising the draft policy for the purpose, officials said.
A senior NBR official said they have set the February 16 as a tentative deadline for providing the device to some 100 shops on a pilot-basis in the first phase.
Consumers, who will shop in an outlet with such a device, will be eligible for participating in the lottery, he said.
According to the draft policy, the firs...