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Explainer · Government revenue
The composition, economic scale, and credibility of Bangladesh's revenue targets, read from the government's own budget documents.
Primary finding
In the FY2025-26 budget, the government planned to raise Tk 564,000 crore in revenue. Almost all of it is collected by the National Board of Revenue.
Foreign grants (Tk 5,000 crore) are counted separately from revenue in Bangladesh's budget presentation.
Source: gov_budget_2025_26/1 Budget at a Glance _E.pdf#p1Verified
Economic scale
The FY2026-27 budget targets revenue of Tk 695,000 crore, about 10.2% of GDP.
The last audited outcome, FY2023-24, came to Tk 409,812 crore, or 8.2% of GDP.
Explore the long-run World Bank tax-to-GDP series in the Data Explorer (series wb_gc_tax_totl_gd_zs).
Target credibility
The FY2024-25 budget was written with a revenue target of Tk 541,000 crore; by the revised budget it had been marked down to Tk 518,000 crore, a change of -4.3% inside a single fiscal year. Reading any budget, treat the revenue line as a target, not a forecast.
Values are returned by the parsed Ministry of Finance glance history and FY2026-27 macro fact base. Ratios appear only when both numerator and denominator are available. No missing amount is converted to zero.