Nepal’s taxation rate is lowest one among other countries: PM Oli; PM inaugurates gas pipeline

Biratnagar / Aug 21: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has argued that although the local units had authority to impose tax, it should be considered as per the people’s capacity to pay.

Addressing the media persons at the Biratnagar Airport today, PM Oli asserted that Nepal’s taxation rate was lowest one among other countries in the world.

He clarified that the recently raised taxes on land and business by all 753 local governments and introduction of a new tax regime for smaller incomes and sources for livelihood aiming to generate sources of income for the city and federal provinces.

The Prime Minister further said that false information should not been disseminated among the people after misinterpreting issues of revenue and tax.

Furthermore, the PM spoke of the need to end the trend of staging protest over any move of the government.

PM inaugurates gas pipeline

Meanwhile, As claimed during his earlier tenure that he would bring an end to the phase of LPG cylinders by setting up gas pipelines for domestic use, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has formally inaugurated gas pipeline installed in the houses at Jatuwa in Biratnagar on Tuesday.

At least 32 families have been cooking food from the gas brought through a pipeline from Gaushala.

The pipeline, however, was not installed by the government. This pipeline was installed by the Shree Krishna Gau Sewa Sadan at Jatuwa in Biratnagar-14 in a bid to replace costly LPG cylinders.

The gas has been distributed to the houses from a biogas plant being operated from the cow dung domesticated at the Shree Krishna Gau Sewa Sadan.

The plant in its first phase has dispensed biogas to 32 houses by installing 400 metre pipes. The consumers have to pay Rs 84 per kilo for using the gas.

The Sadan Committee with the support from World Bank had awarded the project of constructing the biogas plant to the Nepal Energy Development Company with an objective to generate electricity in the fiscal year 2017/18.