Md. Tariq Hassan is a career civil servant serving the Government of Bangladesh having expertise in fiscal policy formulation, revenue administration reform and modernisation,trade facilitation,VAT and customs procedures. He started his career as a civil servant by joining the National Board of Revenue (NBR),Ministry of Finance as an Assistant Commissioner back in 2011. Since then, he has worked in different field offices under the NBR where he performed mostly administrative roles as a revenue official to enforce the tax laws and collect revenue. He assumed his role as the Second Secretary (VAT Policy) at the NBR headquarter in May 2016. His responsibility includes conducting economic cost benefit analysis and analysing the impact of any change in the fiscal laws related to imposition or exemption of duty and taxes on trade as a whole through simulation and modelling for adopting evidence-based tax policy and enforcement strategy. As a core member of the NBR’s policy and budget team, he has been responsible for preparing analytical reports for making policy changes related to the tariff, duty structure and operational rules during the annual budget declaration. Currently he is working closely with the World Bank team and other development partners for preparing a Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (MTRS) for NBR for efficient domestic resource mobilization under the Public Financial Management Action Plan 2018-2023 adopted by the Ministry of Finance.

While working at the National Board of Revenue, Mr Hassan has played significant role in shaping new fiscal policies and regulations in Bangladesh. His team was instrumental in introducing revisions to the new Value Added Tax (VAT) and Supplementary Duty Act’ 2012 which led to its implementation in 2019. He has been actively involved in introducing fiscal policy changes to attract foreign investment, which resulted in several international manufacturing companies establishing manufacturing presence in Bangladesh. Mr. Hassan has also been involved in developing a long-term tobacco taxation policy in Bangladesh with the help of experts from the World health Organization. Previously, Mr. Hassan has also worked in the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU) secretariat, Canberra, Australia as their Membership and Communication Officer.

As part of his professional and social commitment to raise awareness about the tax culture and increase tax compliance in Bangladesh, Mr. Hassan recently co-authored a book on VAT namely “??????? ????? ????? ??????”outlining the new VAT laws for stakeholder practitioners.