Dhaka, March 26 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken proactive measures to dispose of value-added tax (VAT) cases by June this year to meet the revenue collection gap.

The revenue board thinks that the existing revenue collection gap could be minimised through disposing of the litigation and intensifying monitoring.

Following this, the government agency sent a letter to four VAT commissionerates in Dhaka recently directing them to clear up all the VAT evasion-related cases filed between 2017 and 2022 by the end of this fiscal year.

In the letter, the revenue board also sought explanations as to why these cases have been pending for a long time, and it has been ordered to send a report stating who had the responsibility for ...