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  • Customs
  • VAT
  • Tax
  • Trade
  • Regulatory Strategy
  • Commercial Advisory

What We Do

Seven capabilities spanning customs, tax and regulatory practice — each connecting a technical position to the business decision behind it.

Experience Behind Our Advisory Perspective

30+

Years — Senior Customs & Regulatory Leadership

20+

Years — Corporate Finance & Commercial Leadership

Integrated
Perspective

Regulation, Fiscal Impact & Business Reality

Dhaka &
Chattogram

Advisory Presence

The CAPE Perspective

Senior Regulatory Insight

Understanding regulatory frameworks, institutional processes and the practical implications of technical interpretation.

Commercial Intelligence

Assessing how regulatory and fiscal decisions affect cash flow, landed cost, pricing, supply chain and business performance.

Practical Execution

Translating technical positions into structured documentation, regulatory engagement and implementation support.

Regulatory InsightCommercial IntelligencePractical Execution

Bangladesh Budget 2026–27

The fiscal year starts as policy. It arrives as cost.

A budget is read as politics in June and paid as landed cost by July. The distance between those two readings is where our work sits — reading the measures early, then translating them into what they actually do to cash flow, pricing and compliance exposure.

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Film · Post-Budget Summit 2026

Watch the full session — a budget is more than income and expenditure

Dr. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir · 5:34 · in Bangla

Client Impact

Selected engagements showing how regulatory and fiscal positions are built, documented and carried through to execution. Cases are anonymised but sector-specific.

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Foreign Investment

Regulatory Structuring for a Cross-Border Joint Venture

Challenge
Two partners structuring a joint venture in Bangladesh, needing to understand approval routes, entity options and fiscal treatment before the structure was committed to.
Our Approach
Entity and structure options review, approval pathway mapping, fiscal treatment assessment, and documentation and filing support.
Business Value
Supported a more structured decision-making process for the investment partners.

Industrial Packaging

Strategic Support in a Customs Appeal Matter

Challenge
A customs assessment the business did not accept, with an appeal window running and the commercial consequences already in the accounts.
Our Approach
Technical review, appeal strategy and tribunal process support.
Business Value
Strengthened the client’s technical and documentary position ahead of tribunal proceedings.

Manufacturing

VAT Deduction at Source Opinion for Exempt Industrial Inputs

Challenge
Uncertainty over whether VAT deduction at source applied to inputs the business had been treating as exempt — a question that repeated on every transaction rather than arising once.
Our Approach
Transaction and supply mapping, statutory and SRO review, a written technical opinion, and documentation and process guidance.
Business Value
Provided management with greater clarity on fiscal and transaction risk.

Conversations & Perspectives

Selected conversations with policymakers, regulatory experts and business leaders, exploring issues relevant to business, regulation and the wider economic environment.

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Guest · Mohammad Fakhrul Alam

Customs Modernisation, Trade Facilitation & Business Reality

Research & Publications

Research and specialist publications reflecting the regulatory, fiscal and commercial issues central to our advisory practice.

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Featured Publication

Bangladesh Budget Review 2026

From Policy to Practice: Decoding the Final Budget.

An expert-led review of Bangladesh's final national budget, bringing together fiscal analysis, regulatory perspectives and industry insights.

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Book

VAT, Income Tax & Customs Management in Bangladesh

By Mohammad Fakhrul Alam and Md. Arifur Rahman, FCGA, AFA (UK), MIPA (Aus.)

A practical professional reference connecting tax, VAT and customs law with real-world business application in Bangladesh.

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Book

Bonded Warehouse Management in Bangladesh

By AKM Mahbubur Rahman and Md. Arifur Rahman

Legal framework, operational excellence, trade facilitation and business opportunities — practical insights for a more competitive Bangladesh.

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Latest Insights

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On the regulatory agenda

The Leadership Behind CAPE Advisory

Regulatory Experience Meets Commercial Leadership

Our practice is led by professionals whose experience spans regulatory administration, appellate adjudication, multinational finance leadership and corporate taxation.

Mohammad Fakhrul Alam, Senior Advisor | Customs, VAT & Regulatory Affairs at CAPE Advisory & Consulting Ltd.

Mohammad Fakhrul Alam

Senior Advisor | Customs, VAT & Regulatory Affairs

A former senior NBR official with more than three decades of experience across Customs and VAT administration, appellate proceedings, enforcement and trade facilitation, and reform work with USAID, the World Bank and ADB.

Former Member (Technical), Customs, Excise & VAT Appellate Tribunal | Former DG, CIID | Former Commissioner, Chattogram Customs House

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Md. Arifur Rahman, Founder & Chairman | Fiscal & Commercial Advisory at CAPE Advisory & Consulting Ltd.

Md. Arifur Rahman

Founder & Chairman | Fiscal & Commercial Advisory

A business-focused finance, tax and regulatory leader with about 20 years of corporate leadership experience across multinational organisations, connecting Income Tax, VAT and Customs with commercial decision-making.

FCGA, AFA (UK), MIPA (Aus.), M.Com, ITP, PGDTM | Former Head of Finance, Hemas Consumer Brands Pvt. Ltd.

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Ganesh Chandra Mondal, Advisor | Income Tax at CAPE Advisory & Consulting Ltd.

Ganesh Chandra Mondal

Advisor | Income Tax

A former senior leader of the National Board of Revenue's income tax administration, bringing informed guidance on assessment, audit, withholding tax, dispute resolution and appellate matters.

Former Commissioner of Taxes, Tax Survey Zone, National Board of Revenue

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Senior-led. Multidisciplinary in execution.

Our leadership is supported by a multidisciplinary team of qualified and certified VAT consultants, Income Tax Practitioners, accountants and finance professionals with practical experience across NBR offices, industry and corporate operations.

  • Certified VAT Consultants
  • Income Tax Practitioners
  • Qualified Accountants
  • Corporate Finance Professionals

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