Kathmandu. Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel, while delivering a speech in parliament on Thursday, said that the salary of the employees could not be increased due to limited resources. However, billions of taxes are being stolen in the Ministry of Finance headed by Poudel. I didn’t care to pick it up.
The government has been levying customs duty on electric vehicles on the basis of peak power (motor capacity). After the imposition of customs duty on peak power, EV importers are importing EVs by producing low kilowatt documents. The Office of the Auditor General has written in the 62nd report that customs duty has been evaded on the import of EV vehicles.
According to the Auditor General, revenue of Rs 3.72 billion was evaded from Tatopani and Rasuwa customs offices in the fiscal year 2080/81 BS. At a press conference held at the Subarna Hall of the Ministry of Finance on Friday, questions were raised about the customs evasion of Rs 20 billion on EV vehicles and the ministry and department being indifferent to collect revenue.
Responding to the question, Director General of the Department of Customs Mahesh Bhattarai said that tax cannot be collected on the basis of estimates. “We have to be confident before imposing taxes on anything,” he said. It has to be verified. After seeing the ‘grey’ area, the investigation has moved forward to minimize it. Even if there is revenue evasion, there is a post-clearing audit office. Taxes cannot be collected on the basis of estimates. ”
He has not initiated an investigation into the revenue evasion despite the huge arrears in the name of the department. Former Director General Dhundi Prasad Niraula had also written a letter to the subordinate offices to recover the tax evasion on EV vehicles. But after his transfer, no initiative has been taken to collect taxes.
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