Kathmandu. Prakash Pokharel, director of the Department of Revenue Research, visited the central office of Nepal Can Move Pvt Ltd in Koteshwor a month and a half ago. Pokharel, who reached the office with dalbal, continues to receive information from WhatsApp. The employees of the department download the excel sheet from the computer for evading vat. Director Pokharel gets instructions to download this topic in WhatsApp messages.
After this, the Department of Revenue Investigation starts the investigation of Nepal Can Move Pvt. Ltd. The investigation branch continues to demand more facts about the vat evasion on the payment of riders by The Prali. The information is provided by the company as demanded by the investigation.
“We are not people who work with wrong intentions. We have provided all the details sought for the investigation of the department. After this, Prali starts requesting that if he has to pay any kind of tax, he is ready to pay, and the investigation should be completed soon. According to the sources, if the company has evaded the tax by mistake, then it is ready to pay all the taxes and asks them to end the assessment.
After this, the company’s directors get a call from Chartered Accountant Deepak Acharya. Prakash Pokharel, director of research, is my friend. They say i can fix this case. The operators also agree to settle the case instead of getting into this mess. After this, there is an offer of 20 crores to settle the accounts. According to sources, CA Acharya has said that a separate service charge of Rs 5 million will be required for this work.
After hearing the proposal, the operators say that they cannot spend the taxes going to the state in this way and ask them to pursue their case. According to sources, the deal, which initially started from Rs 20 crore, went up from Rs 10 crore to Rs 5 crore. However, the operators replied that they would fully cooperate with the investigation and were ready to obey the court’s order.
“In a meeting with Director General Chandi Ghimire the previous day, we had said that we will not do anything to disturb the business. However, three employees of the company were arrested in the morning. ”
The source added, “Director General Ghimire and Director Pokharel did not agree on how to settle the hair, director Pokharel, who tried to settle the case through DIRECTOR Pokharel CA Acharya, got stuck in the middle of the ego of two people who wanted to set up a separate agent.” ”
According to sources, Director General Ghimire has been ordered to be arrested aggressively after the deal was not finalized. Armed Police Force (APF) had reached the spot with the arrest warrant signed by Director General Ghimire but did not name the company to arrest three people, including the company’s sales head. Director Pokharel said that he could not speak about the investigation when asked about the bargaining of the company. He told Singha Durbar, “At present, you cannot talk about the investigation, call the information officer for institutional opinion.” ”
Department’s Information Officer Nawaraj Adhikari said that one-sided talk of businessmen should not be listened to. He told Singha Durbar, “One-sided allegations of businessmen cannot be accepted only, we have to speak on this issue only after understanding more.” ”
‘Are ready to pay taxes to the state‘
The operators of Nepal Can Move Pvt. Ltd. have said that they are ready to pay taxes to the state. “We are ready to pay taxes as per the law, we do not get away with paying money illegally to the employees of the department, but we pay it to the state itself,” said one of the operators. Our claim is that there is no tax. If it costs, we will pay. We made many requests to the Department of Revenue Investigation to create an environment for this, but their attention is on scaring them by taking out a big big mistake. We are suffering even more when we cooperate in research. ”
Corporate fight
CA Deepak Acharya has returned to Nepal after staying abroad for some time. After returning to Nepal, he also worked as a tax consulting at Nepal Can Move Pvt. Ltd. for some time. According to sources, director Pokharel raided the company on the basis of a tip-off.
Ca Acharya did not want to be contacted when asked for comment. CA Acharya is currently serving in a courier named ‘Nepal Kuri’. According to sources, the Team of Nepal Kuri was also involved in Nepal Can Move earlier. Some of the people who left the company had opened a new company. Nepal Can Move is currently a successful career organization in Nepal. Sources claim that Nepal Kuri has also not been able to increase the pace of business. The company is under investigation in the middle of a corporate battle.
What is dispute ?
Nepal Can Move Pvt. Ltd. was established in 2018. This company works to transport goods in Nepal and abroad. According to the company’s claim that it has gained momentum during covid, it is now hiring 2,000 riders. It has established 500 branches across the country and delivered goods to 5.5 million people.
Recently, the company has been paying Rs 250 million in taxes annually. It is competing with foreign companies in the Nepali courier market. The directors of the company are Sudip Acharya, Ganga Bahadur Thapa and Manis Prasad Acharya. Most of these operators have been arrested and detained by the department. Similarly, Sangam Poudel is the deputy CEO of the company. The company has been delivering various types of goods at home and abroad.
There has been a long-standing dispute that vat will not be levied on the payment of riders on such deliveries. If the company’s claim is to be believed, the company has started paying VAT on the payment of riders from the current year.
But there is no law in Nepal to correct the VAT details submitted once. The company is ready to pay tax by correcting vat returns. But the existing law does not provide the option of editing. Therefore, the company is urging the department to create an environment for easy payment of taxes. But the company is also arresting and detaining employees.
Gagan Bahadur BK, Chief Tax Officer of Inland Revenue Office, Koteshwor, said that it is our duty to assist the Revenue Investigation Department as a ‘law enforcement’ agency. According to office sources, this company is a good taxpayer. There are no arrears visible in the system of the tax office.
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