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Highlights
Following are the highlights of the proposed national budget for the 1997-98 fiscal year:
* Total expenditure: Tk 27,786 crore.
* Total revenue income: Tk 19624 crore.
• Total revenue expenditure: Tk 14544 crore.
* Revenue surplus: Tk 5080 crore.
* Total Annual Development Programme (ADP): Tk 12800 crore.
• Tk 382 crore to be mobilised from new tax measures.
* Highest import duty: Reduced from 45 per cent to 42.5 per cent.
• Introduction of Infrastructure Development Surcharge at a rate of 2.5 per cent on all imports. barring a few area, and certain locally produced goods.
• Lowest tax rate for individual income reduced from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.
* Individual in the urban areas having building, motor vehicles or telephone will have to submit income tax return.
* Corporate tax for banks, insurance company, financial institutions and non-resident companies lowered from 45 per cent to 40 per cent.
• VAT expanded on wholesale and retail levels for some more items.
• Duty raised for some luxury goods.
• Allocation for Food for Work and Rural Infrastructure Development: Tk 553 crore.
• Allocation for education sector: Tk 2342.83 crore in revenue budget and Tk 1685.62 crore in ADP.
• Revenue expenditure in defence sector: Ik 2457.53 crore.
• Unexpected revenue expenditure: Tk 1253.00 crore (including Tk 700 crore for implementing new Pay Scale).
• Tk 7327 crore investment in physical infrastructure sector.
• Tk 1000 crore credit programme for cereal by Bangladesh Bank.
* Tk 100 crore allocation for railway track on Jamuna Bridge.
* Tk 12 crore lump allocation for scientific research.
• Tk 2 crore special allocation for development of cricket.
• Setting up of a Housing Fund of Tk 50 crore.
• Establishment of a Employment-Generation Bank.
• Superannuation Allowance for uncared poor elderly people.