Dhaka – The Access to Information (a2i) Programme under Prime Minister’s Office and National Board of Revenue (NBR) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday 11 June to deliver revenue services to citizens through digital centres located in rural unions, urban municipalities and city corporations, says an a2i programme press release.Md. Nojibur Rahman, senior secretary of Internal Resources Division and chairman of National
Board of Revenue (NBR) and Kabir Bin Anwar, director general (Admin), Prime Minister’s Office and project director of a2i programme, signed a memorandum of understanding form their respective organisations.
To achieve the Vision-2021 of the government and to provide easy, quick and low cost services to the doorsteps of the citizens, a2i has been signed different MoU with the government and non-government organizations. Different public and private services are already being provided from the digital center. As a result, the income of entrepreneurs has increased.
Under this consequences, this MoU signed for delivering different revenue services such as e-TIN registration, re-registration, bin Registration, re-registration and customer related online service, etc. By this MoU, the entrepreneurs of digital centre will get an attractive commission for providing services; which will play an important role in increasing their income and making the digital centre sustainable.
Meanwhile, now it is possible to collect income tax and prepare income tax returns through online calculators of NBR website. NBR has already collected 29 lac citizens income tax through e-TIN and more than one lac citizen were getting VAT and customs services online.
To make its services of an international standard, NBR has taken various initiatives for automation of the VAT, income tax and the customs department services. As a result the efficiency of the officials has increased 75 percent, along with increased the capability to control fraud and also increased revenue earning. On the other hand, digital centre has already provided about 27.80 core (278m) different services to the citizen of Bangladesh; 30,207 bank accounts were opened, 78 core 44 lakh 88 thousand (784m) money transferred through banking channels, received Taka 6.4 crore (64m) remittance, taka 2.7 crore (27m) passport fees, 12,000 passport application services through online.
Millions of workers and professionals have completed online registration from digital centre and also received 4 lakh 50 thousand land records without any hassle. Access to Information (a2i) Programme and senior officials of National Board of Revenue and media representatives were present in the ceremony.
The a2i Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office-with technical support from UNDP and USAID launched the doorsteps services through a digital centre to engage and empower the whole of Bangladeshi society in the process co-creating novel solutions to development challenges and boost their chances of making impact at scale. – Press release
