Bangladesh Registration Fees: BDT 63,250 per Product and 15% VAT

1. Key takeaways

The government fee for a Class B, C or D device in Bangladesh is BDT 63,250 per product, inclusive of 15% VAT. It is made up of two payments: BDT 5,000 plus 15% VAT (5,750) at the recipe stage, and BDT 50,000 plus 15% VAT (57,500) at the registration and inspection stage. Class A carries no government fee. The official schedule contains no line for a BDT 500 pay order.

• The total is BDT 63,250 per product, which is 5,750 plus 57,500 and not a rounded estimate.
• VAT is 15% and is calculated separately on each of the two base fees, not once on their sum.
• Payment is made by TR Challan, and the registration and inspection fee uses payment code ১-২৭১৫-০০০০-১৮৬৩.
• Class A devices have no government fee line at all, because the schedule lists documents only for that class.
• Fees are charged per product, so a project with ten SKUs carries ten times the government fee.
• Renewal is quoted at approximately USD 120 to 137, but that figure is not in this schedule and remains pending verification.

2. Legal basis

The fee position is set out in the DGDA schedule of documents and charges for medical device registration, not in the Act and not in the guideline. That matters because the schedule is a line-item document: what is not listed is not charged, and what is listed is charged exactly as described. The table below reproduces each line against its source.

The arithmetic is worth stating explicitly, because the total is often quoted as a single figure without the derivation. Five thousand multiplied by 1.15 gives 5,750. Fifty thousand multiplied by 1.15 gives 57,500. The two together give 63,250. Every one of those three numbers can be checked against a line in the schedule, which means a budget built on them can be defended line by line if a finance team or an auditor asks how the figure was reached.

3. Expert insights

Insight one: 63,250 is calculated, not estimated. The figure reconciles item by item with the official schedule, and that reconciliation is the strongest argument against the variants that circulate. The version that adds a BDT 500 pay order to reach 63,750 has no basis in the schedule, which contains two fees and one VAT line for each, and no third item. The practical conclusion is simple: budget on 63,250, and ask any quotation that differs to show the line it comes from.

Insight two: the 15% VAT is added per payment, so it is not embedded in the quoted base fee. The 5,000 and the 50,000 are base fees, and VAT is added to each of them. The two payments cannot be combined into a single tax base and taxed once. Chinese-language quotations frequently state BDT 5,000 or BDT 50,000 without mentioning VAT, and the shortfall only becomes visible at the point of payment. For a finance team, this is not a rounding difference: it is 15% of the government cost that was never in the approved budget.

Insight three: the fee is charged per product, not per application. BDT 63,250 is the cost of one product. A project with ten SKUs therefore carries ten times the government fee before any service cost is added. A single application may carry a maximum of five products of the same type, and anything beyond that must be split into additional applications, so the number of applications rises with the size of the portfolio. This is the calculation a manufacturer should complete before it decides how wide its Bangladesh product line will be, because the government cost scales with breadth rather than with revenue.

Insight four: the schedule is the only reliable source, and secondary quotations drift from it. Fee figures circulate in the market through proposals, informal advice and older documents, and each retelling tends to lose a component. Because the schedule is short and itemised, a verification takes minutes: locate the class section, read the fee item, confirm the VAT item, and confirm the payment code. Building that check into the vendor selection process costs far less than discovering the gap after the challan has been issued at the wrong amount.

4. Practical recommendations

GRZAN’s fee tables for clients always have four lines: government fee (number of SKUs multiplied by BDT 63,250), embassy attestation fees (per CFS), local service fees, and logistics and other costs. Each base fee is shown with its corresponding 15% VAT rather than presented as a single tax-inclusive figure, so that the client can see what is paid to whom. We also advise clients to make portfolio decisions at the SKU planning stage, because Bangladesh charges per product, and a product line that is too wide will grow the government fee faster than it grows market revenue.

• Calculate the government fee as the SKU count multiplied by BDT 63,250, and show the multiplication in the budget rather than only the result.
• Present each of the two payments with its own VAT line, so that the tax base is visibly separate and cannot be consolidated later.
• Issue the TR Challan for the registration and inspection fee against payment code ১-২৭১৫-০০০০-১৮৬৩, and check the code before the bank visit rather than at the counter.
• Remove Class A products from the government fee column entirely, and note the document-only basis in the budget file.
• Cost embassy attestation separately by the number of CFS copies, noting that Class C and Class D require two copies.
• Do not include the BDT 500 pay order in any total unless a current schedule line is produced that supports it.

5. Verification checklist

• □ The government fee is calculated by SKU count at BDT 63,250 per product
• □ Each of the two payments shows its own 15% VAT line, with no consolidated tax base
• □ The TR Challan for the registration and inspection fee has been issued under payment code ১-২৭১৫-০০০০-১৮৬৩
• □ Class A products are excluded from the government fee
• □ Embassy attestation is costed separately by CFS copies, at two copies for Class C and Class D
• □ The BDT 500 pay order has not been included in the total

Regulatory information verified as of 6 November 2026, against the original DGDA fee schedule.

How GRZAN can help. GRZAN provides medical device and IVD registration, quality system, authorised representative and local testing support across South Asia, including Bangladesh. Our team prepares dossiers to DGDA expectations, manages submissions and deficiency responses, and supports post-market vigilance obligations. Business enquiries: info@grzanglobal.com