Dhaka, April 22 -- to-GDP ratio languishing at a mere 7.3 percent, the lowest not only in South Asia but across Asia, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has urged the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to fundamentally overhaul the country's tax architecture ahead of FY 2026-27 budget.

The policy brief, titled "Tax Justice for Graduating Bangladesh: The Case of Corporate Income Tax and Value Added Tax," was published recently jointly by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Christian Aid (CA).

It calls for an urgent shift from a narrow, revenue-centric approach to a comprehensive tax-justice framework one that treats equitable financing, reduced regressivity, elimination of revenue leakage, and accountable governance as equally essent...