"This taskforce will mainly work at the field level and conduct drives to identify the foreigners working here," a senior NBR official told UNB. The senior NBR official at its income tax wing said currently, there is no well-managed specific data in the country about the foreign nationals staying in the country. At that time, it found some 30 companies that engaged foreign nationals in various types of jobs. NBR Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan at a recent program said they wanted to bring the foreign nationals under the tax net. But the NBR thinks the actual number of foreign nationals engaged in jobs in Bangladesh will be 4-5 times higher.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 23, 2019 16:52 UTC