The Internal Resources Division (IRD) of the Finance Ministry has exempted travel tax for the erstwhile exclave dwellers willing to go to India under the historical exclave-exchange deal signed between India and Bangladesh.
The tax authorities has taken the steps as per the Home Ministry’sdecision made at an-inter ministerial meeting held earlier at the Secretariat on October 21.
A gazette signed by IRD Secretary Nojibur Rahman was published on November 4 in this connection.
The decision was taken as part of implementation of two agreements between India and Bangladesh. They are - agreement between Bangladesh and India concerning the Demarcation of the Land Boundary between Bangladesh and India and Related Matters in 1974, and protocol to the agreement between the Bangladesh and India concerning the Demarcation of the Land Boundary between Bangladesh and India and Related Matters signed in 2011.
According to the act, people have to pay Tk500 as travel tax if they enter India through land routes.
