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Lahan businessmen protest enterprise tax Siraha, May 31 (RSS): Widespread protest has been launched against the enterprise tax being collected by Lahan Municipality from the businessmen within Lahan bazaar. Lahan municipality has classified the business enterprises into three categories and has been collecting enterprise taxes ranging from Rs 360 to Rs 10,000 a year in accordance with clause 138 of the Local Self Governance Act-2055 B.S. The shops of the business enterprises can be closed down if they hesitate to pay enterprise taxes, according to an official of Lahan Municipality. Lahan Chamber of Industry and commerce has been protesting against the enterprise taxes being collected through one-sided decision of the Municipality. Meanwhile lahan chamber of industry and commerce has, in a notice issued here, called on the businessmen not to pay enterprise taxes to Lahan Municipality. The chamber says that all the businessmen would launch a protest programme if the municipality locked up any shop not paying enterprise tax to the Muncipality. Reacting to the official letter received from the municipality for paying enterprise tax, proprietor of ABC network Bimal Thakur said that the enterprise tax levied by Lahan municipality should be scrapped as it was illegal. President of Siraha District Fnj Ramannda Prasad Gupta expressed the view that it was necessary to collect enterprise tax for the development of the municipality but it should have been done by holding discussions with the chamber of industry and commerce. The local businessmen say that the municipality had been collecting various taxes randomly in order to become financially self-reliant after His Majesty's Government stopped the municipalities from collecting Octroi. General Secretary of the Lahan Chamber of Industry and Commerce Niran Chaudhary said that the businessmen would move ahead their protest programme if Lahan municipality did not qush it's decision to collect enterprise tax. At present 600 businessmen are linked with Lahan Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Other Stories |
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