Kathmandu. The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) filed a case against Nepal Can Move Pvt Ltd a few days ago. Issuing a press release after filing the case, the department accused Prali of hiding the details by keeping a server in Australia.
Most of the media outlets also reported tax evasion by keeping australian servers. However, it has been revealed that the company’s actual server is in Singapore. Although it is an easy way to test the server, the investigation officers have been found to have wrong information.
According to a statement issued by the Department on July 1, 2019, the department stated, “In the present case, the defendants involved in cargo and courier business have been operating the NMC Portal (NMC Portel) (portel.nepalcanmove.com) since the fiscal year 2076/77 BS to carry out commercial transactions.
On checking the department’s statement, prali’s server has been seen in Singapore and not in Australia.
According to sources, some of the operators of Praly are in Australia, after receiving the information, it was written that the server is in Australia on the basis of speculation. To find any company’s server, it is easy to find through DNS and IP geolocation (DNS lookup anf IP geolocation). However, the company claims that the department did not even conduct a general fact-check to create a sensation.
A company source said, “We have presented all the facts and figures during the investigation, we have not hidden anything, if we had been asked, the truth would have been revealed, but here the facts have been distorted and sensationalized.” ’
However, the Department of Internal Revenue has denied the DRI’s allegation that the company hid servers and data to evade taxes. “In the initial years of Prali, there was not much business, but in the last few years, the company has done good business, the company with a turnover of more than 100 million must join the central billing system of the department and Prali has also joined. The company is in the list of companies that submit regular tax returns. ”
Most of the companies in Nepal have servers abroad. For example, online shopping company Daraz also has a server abroad. There is no law to keep the server in Nepal.
In the absence of reliable data centers in Nepal, most companies are forced to keep servers abroad, but the department has presented this issue with tax evasion.
The location of the server
Checking the location of the server can be done in two steps. The ip address from the Domain Name System (DNS) must go to the Internet Protocol address. In this way, the location of the server can be found by going to https://dnschecker.org/ by keeping the IP address. Similarly, according to the second method, geolocation can be obtained by asking https://dnschecker.org/ip-location.php} by keeping an IP address.
Dri has said that it is unnatural to keep servers abroad, but other big companies in Nepal also keep servers outside Nepal. The main reason for this. Lack of reliable Tier 4 (Tire-4) data center in Nepal. For example, Daraz Nepal’s server is also in Singapore. The server of Gaunbeshi Logistics is visible in India. Nepal Can Move Pvt Ltd’s server appears in Singapore ।
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