Bangladesh Tanneries Are "Green Taxes".

The Bangladesh government has introduced a new tax category: " Green tax "It has prompted polluting enterprises to pay extra taxes for the government to clean up the increasingly dirty river and air in the country. The environmental tax was declared part of the $32 billion budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year.

　　 industrial waste water And urban sewage "seriously pollute rivers and water resources." Environmental Science "A M A Muhith, the Minister of finance, announced the budget in parliament," I said, "I propose that 1% of the environmental protection surcharge or green tax be levied on value for all kinds of products produced by industrial enterprises that pollute the environment."

An officer in charge of tax collection told Agence France-Presse reporters that if an enterprise was found to be polluted by air, soil and water, it would be taxed according to its output value. Muhith also announced that if 6000 brick factories in the country were able to build environmentally friendly kilns, they would be duty-free.

Bangladesh is one of the most polluted countries in the world. Muhith believes that the green tax will terminate this situation and encourage the establishment of sewage treatment plants in various industries.

At present, factories are often faced with one-time fines if they are found to be destroying environmental standards, but business owners usually bribe procuratorate to cover up the facts.

Most of the new taxes will affect the textile and tanning industries, which usually discharge untreated wastewater directly into the river. There are about 200 tanneries in the Dhaka area, but none of them has a wastewater treatment plant.