Dhaka, June 17 -- Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on Wednesday cautioned that the government's ambitious revenue mobilisation target for fiscal year 2026-27 could expose taxpayers to harassment at the field level as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) collected only 65 percent of its revised target in the outgoing fiscal year.

MCCI President Kamran T. Rahman raised the concern while delivering the welcome address at a post-budget discussion jointly organised by MCCI, Standard Chartered Bangladesh and the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI) at the M. Anis Ud Dowla Conference Hall of MCCI's Gulshan office in the city.

The budget has set a revenue collection target of Tk 6.95 lakh crore, which represents a gr...