DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities have summoned Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in S$ 2.05 million (US$1.51 million) tax case.
Yunus has been at odds with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina since 2007 when he made a brief foray into the country’s highly polarized political scene.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) said it had asked the 74-year-old economist to come to its office on March 29 to try to resolve the tax dispute after he lodged a court appeal against the unpaid bill.
“Professor Yunus is a very good and compliant taxpayer. But his total tax dues now stand at 117.7 million taka (S$2.05 million),” tax commissioner Meftha Uddin Khan told AFP on Tuesday. “We’ve asked him to settle the dispute through discussions,” Khan said.
