Dhaka, Nov. 3 -- International Monetary Fund creditworthiness-review mission appears unsatisfied with Bangladesh finance officials' explanation over ramped-up revenue target handed to the revenue board for the current fiscal year, and the means of mobilisation.

Finance Division sources said the visiting IMF team, at a meeting last week, sought to know specific grounds and rationale of raising the target steeply by over 35 per cent compared to last fiscal's actual earnings.

In the current fiscal year, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been given the target of generating Tk 4.99 trillion compared to Tk 4.8 trillion in the previous year.

Against the target of Tk 4.8 trillion for the fiscal year 2024-25 the revenue board could genera...