Kathmandu, 1 August : The Inland Revenue Office, Bharatpur has directed Gorkha Brewery to pay the excise duty determined by the tax office within a week. The revenue office has asked the Gorkha Brewery, to pay Rs 871.4 million in excise duty that it failed to pay in the past two fiscal years.
A single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Sumsher Rana, on July 24, overturned an interim order issued by the Pokhara High Court, paving the way for the collection of taxes owed by the brewery to the government. Earlier on June 26, the High Court had issued an interim order directing the Bharatpur Inland Revenue Office not to implement its decision to determine the tax liability of the brewery, according to The Kathmandu Post.
Chief at the Bharatpur Inland Revenue Office, Shambhu Prasad Rijal, said his office had dispatched a letter to Gorkha Brewery on July 28, asking it to deposit Rs532,157,615 and Rs339,339,963, inclusive of excise duty, fines and late fees, for fiscal years 2016/17 and 2017/18.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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