Dhaka, April 28 -- Taxmen sought a hefty allocation for vehicles as logistics support for compliance enforcement to achieve direct- tax -collection target in next fiscal as the IMF forwarded a revenue-raising recipe.

Taxmen presented an estimate of Tk 7.0 billion worth of allocation on account of vehicles to drive to the goal being set for tax mobilisation to make up for shortfalls.

The income-tax wing of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has prepared the logistics budget recently approved by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) in a bid to meet the estimated shortfall in tax- revenue collection with an additional Tk 153 billion.

In a meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) appraisal team Sunday at the NBR office in Dhaka, the in...