Dhaka, Aug. 4 -- Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday slammed a section of economists for their reluctance to see any positive move of the country's economy and urged them to see things with inner eyes.

"There are some junior economists, they do not see anything at all, I know them all very well, I have been teaching since 1970, and all of them are my students. If you want to see, you need to have eyes, inner eyes," he said.

The Adviser was speaking at a seminar on activities of income tax, VAT and Customs in the 2025-26 budget and inauguration of the e-return submission for the 2025-26 fiscal.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) organised the programme at its headquarters with its chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan in the chair. ...