Dhaka, May 9 -- Referring to those who are paying tax, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is imposing more tax on them, the Prime Minister's Private Industry and Investment Advisor Salman Fazlur Rahman said those who have TIN certificates all should be brought under the tax net.

"We need to widen the tax net and lower the tax rates; this is the only way to increase revenue," he was talking to journalists after the inaugural ceremony of 29th Annual US Trade Show at the InterContinental Hotel on Thursday.

The countries around the world that have reduced tax rates and increased tax nets have seen revenue rise, he added.

He said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, many people are doing good business in the upazila a...