What's getting costlier, what's getting cheaper

Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed today announced the proposed budget for the upcoming 2025–26 fiscal year.

In his televised address to the nation, the adviser also proposed changes to duties on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices.

Prices UP

Cigarettes, online shopping, rods, cosmetics, soap, shampoo, children's toys, locally manufactured mobile phones, household plastic goods, LPG, locally made LPG cylinders, flats, ballpoint pens, helicopter services, locally made washing machines, microwave ovens, electric ovens, locally made blenders/juicers/mixers/grinders, locally made electric kettles and irons, rice cookers and pressure cookers, blades, locally made lifts, OTT content, commercial buildings, self-copy paper/duplex board/coated paper, yarn, manmade fibre, screws/nuts/bolts, surgical kits, ship scrap goods, cement sheets, credit rating services, three-wheeler batteries, set-top boxes, etc.

Prices DOWN

Sugar, sanitary napkins, ice cream, land registration fees, newsprint paper, cancer medicines, insulin, LNG, tyres, locally made e-bikes, clay pots, paper plates, large locally made computer monitors, air travel fares, and lithium-graphene batteries, etc.

This year budget has been presented outside parliament in a new format for the first time in Bangladesh's post-uprising reality. The budget speech was broadcast simultaneously on BTV and other private media outlets.

The new budget for the fiscal year 2025-26, which is set to begin on July 1, will be passed on June 30.

Earlier in 2008, the budget was announced outside parliament during the military-backed caretaker government.