This time the cost of online food, online shopping, car registration, foreign TV, and mobile and internet will increase. Shopping on e-commerce using the internet and ordering food online will increase the cost of the e-commerce business.

This expenditure will increase at the consumer level as additional taxes are imposed on these products and services in the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2020-21. However, VAT exemption on automobiles, refrigerators, and ACs and an increase in existing concessions on imports of refrigerators and ACs may reduce their value.

This information came from the budget analysis proposed by Finance Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal on Thursday. This is the second time he has proposed a budget under the slogan 'Economic Transition and Future Path'.

Several government ministers, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, were present in the parliament room during the presentation of the budget. However, physically ill opposition leader Raushan Ershad did not attend the session. However, Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Golam Mohammad Quader joined as scheduled.