Kathmandu, Dec. 3
The Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) has
honoured the high tax paying businesses and individuals in the Fiscal Year
2021/22 that were honoured by the Inland Revenue Department last week on the
occasion of National Tax Day 2080.
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal, President of CNI, honoured the
high tax payers at a programme organised at the CNI Secretariat on Sunday.
The government had honored 16 institutions and
individuals as high tax payers.
Among the awardees, two are government-run companies
and 14 are from the private and public sectors. The CNI honoured 14 high tax
payers in the private and public sectors. 11 out of the 14 are members of CNI,
it said in a statement on Sunday.
Dabur Nepal Pvt. Ltd. is the highest tax payer from
export business in the FY 2021/22, Asian Paints Pvt. Ltd. is the highest tax
payer from special industries, and OCB Foods and Feeds Pvt Ltd from agriculture
and livestock industry sector.
Similarly, Chhimek Laghubitta Financial Institution
Ltd., Global IME Bank Limited, Life Insurance Corporation (Nepal) Ltd., Nobel
Medical College Teaching Hospital Pvt. Ltd., and Mankamana Darshan Pvt. Ltd.
were honoured as the highest tax payers from their respective sectors.
Likewise, Bhatbhateni Supermarket and Departmental
Stores Pvt. Ltd., Bhotekoshi Power Company Pvt. Ltd. and IME Limited were other
business that received the honour as the highest tax payers. From individual
category, Bijay Kumar Shah topped the rank while Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd was the
one that paid the highest total internal revenue and filed the highest value
added tax.
Agrawal said that being a high tax payer is not only
a personal and institutional achievement but also an important contribution to
the country.
He said that the confederation is proud that about
70 per cent of the highest tax payers from the private sector are CNI members.
He also expressed his best wishes for this success in the coming year as well.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 4 December 2023.
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