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Offshore Banking Bill 2024 placed in JS
Only a day given to review

Staff Reporter:

The Offshore Banking Bill 2024 was placed in Parliament on Saturday as part of a stated objective to enhance the country’s reserves of foreign currency and attract foreign investment.
Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali introduced the Bill and it was sent to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Ministry for further examination. The Committee was asked to submit its report within one day.
As per the proposed law, non-resident individuals or foreign firms, who will invest here, can open off-shore bank accounts.
A license from Bangladesh Bank is required to do offshore banking. Those who have obtained this li-cense do not need to have a new license.
The offshore banking operations can be done with the five currencies –US Dollar, Pound, Euro, Japa-nese Yen and Chinese Yen.
Any relative of a Bangladeshi living abroad can open an account and manage the account as a supporter.
Now foreigners who deposit money under the internal banking system of Bangladesh, need permission to remit the money from the country. But in the case of offshore banking, they can do it freely.
The move for offshore banking is not only to increase reserves but also to gain financial benefit.
If someone keeps money in that offshore account, no one will ask about the source of the money.
The individuals or firms who are living abroad or the foreign ones will be allowed to open bank ac-counts under the proposed law.
As per the proposed law, no individual will be allowed to do offshore banking business apart from scheduled bank working in Bangladesh.
It said that there should be policies approved by the bank board for the Related schedule Bank in the light of instructions given by Bangladesh Bank for conducting offshore banking activities.
Separate books of account shall be maintained for offshore operations of Scheduled Banks which shall be used for verification of financial and other operations.
Asset Liability Management guidelines of respective banks shall be applicable for offshore banking ac-tivities.
Funds can be transferred from domestic banking units to offshore banking units with the special approv-al of Bangladesh Bank, as per the proposed Law.
All the funded and non-funded limits prescribed by Bangladesh Bank shall be applicable to offshore banking business of Scheduled Banks.
Submission of all types of reports as directed by Bangladesh Bank shall be applicable for offshore bank-ing business of scheduled banks.
The bill proposed that in the Offshore Banking Business Interest or profits payable by the depositors or foreign lenders shall be exempt from direct and indirect taxes.
Accounts of depositors or foreign lenders shall be exempted from any duty and levy.

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