Budget FY2026-27: First Read

The FY2026-27 budget totals BDT 938,000 crore (13.7% of GDP), against a revenue target of BDT 695,000 crore (10.2% of GDP). The deficit, including grants, stands at BDT 236,850 crore (3.5% of GDP). The Annual Development Programme is BDT 300,000 crore.

The fiscal arithmetic

Non-ADP expenditure comes to BDT 638,000 crore. The revenue target covers it with BDT 57,000 crore to spare, so roughly BDT 243,000 crore of the BDT 300,000 crore ADP is financed by borrowing and grants. The ADP takes 32.0% of the budget. The printed deficit of BDT 236,850 crore includes grants; expenditure minus revenue alone is BDT 243,000 crore, so grants bridge BDT 6,150 crore of the difference.

The full analytical read, including revenue credibility and reallocation analysis, is at budget analysis.

What the budget promises

The budget speech announces 53 concrete citizen-facing measures, each verified against the speech text with page citations on the Key Measures page. The flagship items:

• Family Card Programme expansion: Monthly allowance of Tk 2,500 paid directly to the beneficiary's mobile or bank account via G2P, about three times existing safety-net rates. Family Cards to be distributed to 4.1 million women in FY2026-27 with an allocation of Tk 14,500 crore; the card is issued in the name of the mother or female head of household. (speech, PDF p. 70-71)
• Farmer Card rollout: Farmer Card Program launched 14 April 2026 (pre-pilot: 22,065 farmers). In FY2026-27, 42.5 lakh cards to be distributed across 100 upazilas; landless, marginal and small farmers receive an annual one-time cash assistance of Tk 2,500 plus 10 additional benefits. Initial allocation Tk 1,062.5 crore. (speech, PDF p. 63)
• Health spending raised toward 5 percent of GDP: Pledge to progressively raise total health sector allocations to 5.0 percent of GDP within five years; as a first step, FY2026-27 health sector allocations raised to 1.01 percent of GDP. (speech, PDF p. 54-55)
• Zero tax on solar power until 2035: Zero percent tax rate proposed for the solar power sector until 2035, plus a 5 percent tax rebate for consumers on payments against their solar electricity bills. (speech, PDF p. 135)
• Higher tax-free income threshold: Tax-free income threshold raised from Tk 350,000 to Tk 375,000 for assessment years 2026-27 and 2027-28, rising to Tk 400,000 (2028-29 and 2029-30) and Tk 450,000 (2030-31). Higher thresholds for women and senior citizens 65+ (Tk 425,000), third-gender taxpayers and physically challenged persons (Tk 500,000), war-wounded freedom fighters and gazetted July fighters (Tk 525,000), plus an additional Tk 50,000 per disabled child or dependent for parents or guardians. (speech, PDF p. 128-129)
• Withholding tax on 60 essential commodities cut to 0.5 percent: Withholding tax on 60 essentials, including paddy, rice, wheat, potatoes, livestock, poultry, fish, onion, garlic, ginger, salt, sugar, edible oil and seeds, reduced from 5, 2 and 1 percent to 0.5 percent. (speech, PDF p. 132)

Where the money goes

Ministry-wise gross allocations from the Annual Financial Statement (Statement 8). Shares are of total gross ministry allocations, which exceed the net budget headline by the netting bridge printed in Statement 8 (documented on the methodology page).

• Finance Division: BDT 830,552 crore (54.81% of ministry allocations)
• Economic Relations Division: BDT 69,249 crore (4.57% of ministry allocations)
• Secondary and Higher Education Division: BDT 57,302 crore (3.78% of ministry allocations)
• Health Services Division: BDT 49,387 crore (3.26% of ministry allocations)
• Ministry of Primary and Mass Education: BDT 46,738 crore (3.08% of ministry allocations)
• Ministry of Defence: BDT 42,497 crore (2.8% of ministry allocations)
• Local Government Division: BDT 40,246 crore (2.66% of ministry allocations)
• Road Transport and Highways Division: BDT 36,918 crore (2.44% of ministry allocations)
• Planning Division: BDT 36,251 crore (2.39% of ministry allocations)
• Ministry of Food: BDT 32,415 crore (2.14% of ministry allocations)

Biggest moves vs FY2025-26 revised

• Ministry of Social Welfare: +126.3%
• Health Services Division: +125.2%
• Medical Education and Family Welfare Division: +120.0%
• Energy and Mineral Resources Division: +72.0%
• Statistics and Informatics Division: +61.1%
• Information & Communication Technology Division: -28.5%
• Financial Institutions Division: -31.6%
• Bridges Division: -45.4%
• Ministry of Commerce: -63.9%
• Security Services Division: -100.0%

Moves reflect the printed AFS figures. Security Services Division prints zero in every FY2026-27 column of Statements 6, 7 and 8 and therefore shows as -100.0%.

Three-year trajectory

• FY2025-26 (original): BDT 1,360,262 crore ministry-wise gross expenditure
• FY2025-26 (revised): BDT 1,357,031 crore ministry-wise gross expenditure (-0.2% vs previous column)
• FY2026-27 (original): BDT 1,515,439 crore ministry-wise gross expenditure (+11.7% vs previous column)