Bdbusinessdaily.com – The Bangladesh president has granted clemency to 21 National Board of Revenue (NBR) officers whose disciplinary penalties were imposed following last year’s prolonged protest movement against the restructuring of the country’s revenue administration. Separate notifications issued by the Internal Resources Division (IRD) on 6 September confirmed the formal withdrawal of all punitive actions taken against the affected officials.

The decision closes a chapter that began in June 2025, when revenue-sector employees staged what became the most sustained work stoppage in the history of the NBR. For roughly six weeks, customs houses and tax offices across Bangladesh operated under partial or total paralysis, with the final days of the shutdown bringing revenue collection to a near-complete halt at the close of the financial year. The disruption extended to the NBR headquarters in Dhaka and to every regional office nationwide — a scale of inactivity that had no precedent in…