If people refuse to pay taxes, then we've a useful indication that the tax rate is too high. If people smuggle and then dodge import taxation, then this is useful information that import taxes are too high. That 20% of the market simply ignores the very idea itself would indicate that perhaps that tax rate is too high. That people dodge the 43% tax tells us that the tax is too high anyway. So, the correct thing to do is abolish the import tax.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 18, 2026 08:33 UTC