Building owners to get 10% holding tax rebate for rooftop gardening: LGRD Minister

Building owners in all city corporations and municipalities will get a 10 percent rebate on the holding tax for rooftop gardening, said Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam on Wednesday (June 14, 2023), reports UNB.

“The decision has been taken to bring down the temperature,” said the minister at a meeting at the conference room of the Local Government Division at the Secretariat.

Talking about upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, he said that instructions have been given to the authorities concerned to clear the sacrificial animal waste by evening of the Eid day.

“Animal waste is usually removed by the evening. This time too, the same instructions have been given. Besides, animals will have to be sacrificed at designated places,” he said.

Efforts have been made to ensure that there will be no pollution from sacrificial animal waste, the minister added.