Dhaka, April 26 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is increasingly adopting information technology to improve compliance, expand the tax base and reduce human discretion in revenue administration, its chairman Abdur Rahman Khan said on Saturday.

"With digital data, we can analyse taxpayer behaviour and assess the likely impact of policy measures with greater accuracy," he said, noting that such capabilities were largely absent under the previous manual system.

He was speaking at a pre-budget seminar organised by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) at its Nilkhet auditorium in the capital on Saturday evening.

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