The SME Foundation started training the country's small and medium entrepreneurs on tax and value added tax for free to help them run businesses properly, officials said.

The state-run agency responsible for promoting SMEs across the country has taken steps to organise workshops in four divisional cities in the upcoming fiscal year of 2012-13.

Under the programme, a three-day training workshop to provide training to 40 SME entrepreneurs from Dhaka region began on Tuesday at the office of the foundation in Dhaka, said an official of the agency.

At the workshop, the participants got detailed ideas on topics tax and VAT laws, the loading and unloading system of imported and exported goods, and VAT registration and tax identification certificates.

Syed Rezwanul Kabir, chief executive officer of the SME Foundation, presided over the inaugurating ceremony. Farid Uddin, a member of the National Board of Revenue, and Mohammad Shahab Uddin, a former member of the NBR, were also present.

Forty entrepreneurs from Chittagong region already received training on tax and VAT related issues.

The foundation will organise the same workshop in Khulna and Rajshahi later.

The Daily Star/ Bangladesh/ 24-May-2012

M Haikal Hashmi, Deputy Managing Director of Trust Bank Limited, seen at a workshop on market segmentation at the bank’s Training Academy on Sunday.

Trust Bank organised a workshop on SME market segmentation database at its Training Academy in Dhaka city on Sunday.

M. M. Haikal Hashmi, deputy managing director of the Bank, according to a press release, inaugurated the workshop.

T. I. M. Rawshan Zadeed, vice president & head of SME & Ashraful Alam, joint director, Bangladesh Bank were present.

Officers from different branches and SME department of the Bank were part of the meeting.

The Daily Sun/ Bangladesh/ 15th May 2012

Managing Director of Social Islami Bank Limited Muhammed Ali inaugurates a workshop in Dhaka.

Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has arranged a workshop on ‘Payment System’ through BACPS (Bang-ladesh Automated Cheque Processing System), BEFTN (Bangladesh Electronic Funds Transfer Network) under BACH (Bangladesh Automated Clearing House).

Managing Director of SIBL Muhammed Ali inaugurated the programme as chief guest, said a press release on Sunday.

Executive director of Bangladesh Bank Dasgupta Asim Kimar presented the keynote paper as special guest.

The Bank officials working in Dhaka city area participated in the workshop.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 30th April 2012

Participants of a workshop of the ‘HSBC Young Entrepreneur Challenge (YEC)’ pose for photograph.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Li-mited has organised a workshop on ‘En-hancing Communications and Presentation Skills’ for six finalist teams of the ‘HSBC Young Ent-repreneur Challenge (YEC)’.

HSBC YEC, launched for the sixth time in Bangladesh, is an annual, regional competition, said a press release.

Sharmin Rahman, Creative Director of Asiatic JWT took an interactive session with the students.

Adiya Narayan Singh Deo, Head of Human Resources, and Talukdar Noman Anwar, Head of Marketing, HSBC Bangladesh also spoke.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 29th April 2012

Md. Badiul Alam, Additional Managing Director of National Bank Limited inaugurates a workshop in the city recently.

National Bank Limited (NBL) organised a workshop on 'Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism' at its Training Institute premises in the city recently.

A total number of fifty six Branch Managers participated in the workshop.

Md. Badiul Alam, Additional Managing Director of the Bank inaugurated the workshop as chief guest.

Debaproshad Debnath, Gneral Manager and Head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, Bangladesh Bank were present as resource person.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 19th April 2012