Budget FY2025-26

Budget FY2025-26

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Businesses feel cold winds

Businesses contend that, despite all its talk of discipline and reform, the FY26 budget appears to have overlooked a fundamental question: how does it stimulate private sector growth amidst global...

FY26 budget targets overly ambitious, experts tell AmCham dialogue

FY26 budget targets overly ambitious, experts tell AmCham dialogue

Infographics: TBS

Budget’s impact on listed firms: Who benefits, who faces challenge

DSE, brokers hail ‘capital market-friendly’ budget

DSE, brokers hail ‘capital market-friendly’ budget

Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) logo. Photo: Collected

Turnover tax hike to 1% may hurt CMSMEs: BCI on proposed budget

Photo: Collected

Deteriorating investment climate threatens growth, says MCCI on FY26 budget

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam speaks at a press conference at the party’s office in Dhaka on 3 June 2025. Photo: Facebook

Unemployment crisis sparked July uprising, but proposed budget offers no solution: NCP chief Nahid

Adviser Fouzul Kabir Khan. File Photo: TBS

Fouzul terms FY26 budget as exceptional one for reducing unnecessary expenditures

Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud spoke at a post-budget press conference in the capital today (3 June). Photo: Screengrab

Proposed budget aims to break debt cycle, clean up project mismanagement of the past: Planning adviser

Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur. TBS Sketch

Inflation expected to decline more than budget target: BB governor

A file photo of Finance Adviser Saluhuddin Ahmed speaking at a press conference at Osmani Auditorium in the capital on 3 June. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Proposed budget prioritises people, not just growth metrics: Finance adviser

Pie chart showing revenue sources (NBR tax, foreign grants, etc.) and bar graph showing expenditure breakdown by sector (public services, interest payments, education, etc.) for Bangladesh's FY26 budget.

Budget FY26 in infographics

Proposed budget in line with estimates, but below expectations: CPD's Mustafizur

Proposed budget in line with estimates, but below expectations: CPD's Mustafizur