During the first six months of the current fiscal (2006-07), the Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) attained Tk 324 crore taxes more over the amount collected in the same period the previous fiscal.

The LTU attained Tk 925 crore taxes during the July-December period against the target of Tk 915 crore. The amount collected in the same period in FY 2005-06 was Tk 601 crore, said the sources in the NBR.

The NBR awarded Tk 50 lakh to the 22 LTU officials. Most of this cash grants were awarded to Commissioner Parvez Iqbal, Additional Commissioner Kazi Emdadul Hoque and Joint Commissioners GM Abul Kalam Kaikobad, Abu Md. Qamrul Hasan and Mustasim Billah Faruqui.

The other cash grant awardees are Deputy Commissioners Md. Abdus Samad Al Azad, Md Saroar Hossain Chowdhury, Md Shah Ali, Md Mostafizur Rahman and Anjan Kumar Saha.

The grant winners assistant commissioners are Abdullah Al Arif, Md Nurul Amin, Selina Sultana and Mohammad Mahmudul Hoque.

The eight inspectors who won cash grants are Alamgir Kabir Bhuiyan, Md Feroz Alam, Md Abul Bashar, ASM Mustafizur Rahman¸ Mohammad Ali, Sukumar Adhikari, Ranjit Kumar Barua and Md Fazlul Haque.