UK’s Hunt promises to boost growth but won’t budge on tax hike

British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt will promise on Friday to tackle the country’s weak productivity with post-Brexit finance reforms to boost growth, but he will stick to tax hikes that have angered some MPs in his Conservative Party. Have given. Hunt, which stabilized financial markets after the upheaval of former prime minister Liz Truss’ “mini-budget” […]

Matiur Rahman, Mahfuz Anam, three other journalists are top taxpayers

NBR has been giving tax cards and honors to top taxpayers since 2016. Of the 141 top taxpayers in 2021-22, 76 are individuals and the rest are organisations. Organizations include banks, non-banking financial organizations, telecommunications, engineering, food and related organizations, fuel, jute, spinning and textile, pharmaceutical and chemical, print and electronic media, housing, readymade garments, […]