¹Md. Tasruzzaman Babu,²Dr. Morium Akter

¹Divisional Mechanical Engineer, Bangladesh Railway, Lalmonirhat-5500, Bangladesh

²Dental Surgeon, Update Dental College & Hospital, Tongi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

This paper discussed briefly the Composition of Government Budget of Bangladesh of recent years with analyzing the composition of expenditure, explaining the share or ratio of specific policy areas in the expenditure and how the share or ratio of each major policy area got changed in the last 15 years. This paper also investigated the policy areas which were expanded and which got shrunk with explaining their reason of changes. Along with above, this paper summarized various tax sectors in Bangladesh mentioning their size and explaining major changes in tax system.

Bangladesh Budget; development budget; public administration; fiscal year; tax

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