The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Speakers at a workshop here on Thursday called upon the business community to extend whole hearted cooperation in using Electronic Cash Registrar (ECR) machine in the business establishments for the sake of speedy disposal of accounts side by side with accurate collection of Value Added Tax (VAT).

Highlighting the salient features of the machine, they viewed that the manual process in the business activities especially accounts should be replaced with the modern technology to bring dynamism along with making the trade activities profitable.

Rajshahi Commissionerate of Customs, Excise and VAT arranged the workshop on using ECR machine at Nanking Darbar Hall. Some 100 persons including businessmen and customs officials and staff attended the workshop and exchanged their views on successful promotion of the machine.

Customs Commissioner Lutfor Rahman, Additional Commissioners Dr Golam Muhammad Monir and Hafizur Rahman and Joint Commissioner Wahidul Alam addressed the workshop as resource persons.

The speakers urged the business community to help make the process successful so that the government could achieve the VAT collection target for implementing the development programmes smoothly. "Businessmen are the driving force for strengthening foundation of the state economy," they said.

They said that the government had launched the process for the first time in the country aimed at brining transparency in the tax-collection system in the businessmen level along with making the relation between the tax collectors and the taxpayers more closer and cordial. The businessmen are solely responsible for making the process a complete success.

"Businessmen are the main driving force for strengthening foundation of the state economy which is essential to operate its machinery smoothly," they further said.

They said increased tax collection depends on the enhanced income of the businessmen and the Customs Department bears positive attitude towards their benefit. "We have no intention to put the businessmen in trouble for collecting tax," they said.

They further said that businessmen have been contributing a lot in the nation building process although they have been facing many problems.