Tax disputes

Jurists Chambers advises on various income tax, value-added tax, and customs duty issues including:

• Corporate taxation rates;
• Taxable incomes and deductibles;
• Taxation of local income of foreign businesses;
• Taxation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and local-foreign Joint Ventures (JV);
• Tax implications of corporate borrowings, IPO and debenture/bond issues;
• Tax treatment of incomes from business and other sources;
• Tax holidays and benefits/incentives for foreign investors in Bangladesh;
• Tax compliance of new business;
• Tax exemption for non-profits;
• Tax liability of oil, gas and mineral exploration companies having PSC with the Bangladesh Government.

We are able to provide relief in following cases:

• Errors in tax assessment orders or in computing taxable income;
• Arbitrary/erroneous estimation of taxable income or import value of goods/machineries;
• Over assessment of tax or customs duty;
• Wrongful refusal by the revenue authority to allow any deduction;
• Double taxation;
• Assignment of wrong HS code for charging higher customs duty;
• Unlawful refusal by the customs authority to release imports;
• Unlawful refusal to allow a tax refund
• Failure on the part of the revenue authority to comply with the taxation laws and statutory proceedings;
• Unlawful seizure and confiscation of imports by the customs authority;
• Unlawful freezing of assets and bank accounts by the revenue authority.