Public Account Committee – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com Impart Educate Propel Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:32:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://nepalireporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-RN_Logo-32x32.png Public Account Committee – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com 32 32 PAC directs CIAA to take legal action against NOC Managing Director Khadka https://nepalireporter.com/2017/08/38972 https://nepalireporter.com/2017/08/38972#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:32:11 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=38972 PACA meeting of the Public Account Committee in Parliament has directed the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority to take legal action against the Managing Director of the Nepal Oli Corporation Gopal Khadka for his alleged involvement in irregularities of millions of rupees while procuring land for setting up storage facilities.]]> PAC

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: A meeting of the Public Account Committee in Parliament has directed the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority to take legal action against the Managing Director of the Nepal Oli Corporation Gopal Khadka for his alleged involvement in irregularities of millions of rupees while procuring land for setting up storage facilities.

The PAC meeting held on Friday has concluded that the NOC’s handling in land procurement was against the Land Acquisition Act 2034. The price paid for the land was too inflated than the market rate.

The Committee has also concluded that Khadka was involved in misappropriation of about 670 million rupees in the land purchasing in Chitwa, Jhapa, Bhairahwa and Sarlahi districts.

]]> https://nepalireporter.com/2017/08/38972/feed 0 PAC instructs Finance Minister to immediately collect CGT from Ncell https://nepalireporter.com/2017/07/38256 https://nepalireporter.com/2017/07/38256#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:49:47 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=38256 Public Account CommitteeThe Public Account Committee (PAC) under the Legislature-Parliament has directed the Finance Ministry to obtain capital gains tax from Ncell, a privately owned mobile network operator in Nepal, at the earliest. ]]> Public Account Committee

 

KATHMANDU, July 13: The Public Account Committee (PAC) under the Legislature-Parliament has directed the Finance Ministry to obtain capital gains tax from Ncell, a privately owned mobile network operator in Nepal, at the earliest.

Today’s PAC meeting took a decision to this effect, asking the Ministry to collect Rs 60.71 billion Ncell has to pay in CGT as determined by Large Taxpayers’ Office (LTO) on June 27 and relay the information of the matter to the PAC.

The PAC also directed the Ministry and the LTO to provide information about details of the company like how many times its ownership was transferred and its shares were handed over and the details of transactions made in that course, said PAC President Dor Prasad Upadhyay.

According to a source, the company’s ownership was transferred 12 times so far that include the latest report of a Malaysian company named Axaita, which reportedly bought the company from a Norwegian company named Telia Sonera.

Meanwhile at the meeting, lawmakers cast doubt whether CGT of Rs 60.71 would be collected from the company.

Bishnu Poudel also the former Finance Minister stressed that the government should first made it clear that who either seller or purchaser should pay the tax and made efforts to obtain it as soon as possible.
Ramhari Khatiwada and Dharaj Gurung expressed their concern over the nod given to the company by another parliamentary committee for the operation of 4G system. Such move was interference in the PAC’s jurisdictions, they claimed. The permission granted by the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) with the support from another committee within the parliament was against the PAC decision to ban the company from launching a new technology until it clears the CGT, they added.

The PAC has also drawn the attention of Speaker Onsari Gharti towards this end.

Lawmakers Bharat Saha, Meena Pun, Hari Nepal, Bhanubhakta Dhakal, Baddsah Kurmi and Shatrudhan Mahato demanded action against those government employees lenient to the company.

Revenue Secretary Shishir Dhungana said the Finance Ministry had already sent a letter to the Nepal Rastra Bank, asking it not to allow the company to send its any sorts of gains and income abroad until the tax clearance.

Similarly, the meeting has directed the Finance Ministry to make it clear in writing why the capital expenditure increased all of a sudden in the end of the fiscal ( current) year. RSS

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