Major Duty and Tax Cuts; GDP Growth Target Set at 6.5%

The proposed national budget for the 2026–27 fiscal year has set ten core priorities to restore macroeconomic stability, achieve a 6.5 percent economic growth rate, bring inflation down to 7.5 percent, and build a resilient foundation for sustainable development.

For the first time in two decades, the BNP government, led by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, is presenting the national budget to the Jatiya Sangsad. Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury placed the BDT 9,38,000 crore budget proposals before the parliament today, marking his first ever budget presentation as the nation's finance minister.

In his formal budget address, the Finance Minister emphasized that the state's strategic planning and overarching framework have been engineered precisely to handle domestic economic stagnation alongside newly emerging risks arising from global volatile conditions. He noted that the administration has placed financial stability, industrial investment, domestic production, employment generation, and absolute fairness at the absolute center of its national strategy to ease the public standard of living and ensure balanced growth across the country.