[3] In November 2005, Hossain was promoted to additional secretary while serving as the Director General of the Food, Planning and Monitoring Unit.
[5] On 9 January 2007, Hossain was appointed the chairman of the National Board of Revenue replacing A. F. M. Solaiman Chowdhury.
[9] In September 2009, Hossain and former shipping advisor M. A. Matin were sued by M/S Everest Enterprise on allegations of rigging a contract.
[12][13] He was replaced by Mohammad Mohsin in the Privatisation Commission in January 2010 after being made an officer on special duty.
[14] In 2011, Judge Mohammad Mohsinul Haque of the Second Joint District Judge's Court asked Hossain and the former advisor in charge of the Ministry of Shipping M. A. Matin to pay 250 million BDT for not selecting the lowest bidder for a contractor at Chittagong Port in 2008.