Dhaka, April 26 -- In a bid to attract fundamental, profitable and transparent domestic and multinational unlisted companies to be enlisted on the stock market, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has requested the Finance Ministry to doing a minimum 10 percent difference in tax rates.

At present, the current tax rate for listed companies is nearly 22.5 percent while unlisted companies are around 27.50 percent.

In this regard, BSEC Chairman Khandaker Rashed Maksud sent a letter to the Finance Ministry on Thursday (April 24).

The letter, states that the Bangladesh stock market has been suffering from a lack of fundamental and profitable companies for a long time, which has limited market depth.

Most of the profitable d...