Kathmandu, Jan. 15
Tax payers can now pay
their tax liability from any bank with the help of PhonePay application in
their cell phones.
The customers of the tax
office could pay the tax only through the Everest Bank. PhonePay and Everest
Bank signed an agreement to this effect on Friday. Bank’s Deputy General
Manager Ashutosh Sharma and PhonePay’s Chief Technology Officer Diwas Sapkota
signed the agreement.
The tax payers can pay
the Value Added Tax (VAT), property tax, business tax and other service charges
from their mobile banking. It has ended the obligation to reach the Inland
Revenue Offices and stand in a queue to pay the taxes.
PhonePay has 52 banks
and financial institutions in its network, 1.1 million mobile banking users and
160,000 merchants.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 16 January 2021.
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