Dhaka, June 4 -- Business leaders expressed optimism over the proposed national budget saying it will significantly contribute to ensuring financial stability and promoting inclusive development.

They also said the provision of paving way to adjust Advanced Income Tax (AIT) for the next fiscal year will be helpful for businesses to further boost. "Keeping the provision of adjustment of AIT for the next fiscal year is a great privileged for the businesses. The previous government has taken the AIT as complete seizures.

Even if the tax become lower than the AIT, the previous government were not pave way to adjust those, but this budget do such a good initiative," Asharf Ahmed, former President of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce Industry (DC...