Dhangadhi-Kailali Customs has collected more revenue than the target even in the midst of the Corona epidemic. The monthly target has been met except for two months of the injunction in April and May.
According to the Information Officer of the Customs Office, Ambika KC, in the last Fiscal Year 2077/78, the revenue collected from customs duty, value-added tax and excise duty was 7 percent more than the target of Rs. 8.84 billion.
The annual target was set at Rs. 8.21 billion. "The ban did not meet the monthly target in April and May," she said. According to him, the revenue of Rs. 711.78 million was collected in April. This was about 21 percent less than the target. In May, only 693.33 million was collected.
This is only 63 percent of the target. She informed me that most of the revenue is collected from petroleum products from Kailali customs. Since then, revenue collection has been higher in marble tiles, motor parts, textiles, AC blocks, and food grains.
Leakage still remains
Although Kailali customs has collected revenue as per the target during the Corona period, it has not been able to stop the revenue leakage from the open border. Sugar, chemical fertilizers, cement, rods, TVs, fans, pulses, bicycle parts, salt, clothes, slippers, toys, cooking oil, biscuits, fish, chicken eggs, chickens are being smuggled through the 102 km open border checkpoint of Kailali. Do
It is seen that revenue has been collected only from potatoes and onion from small customs in Kailali. Sources claim that most of the goods in the big rural markets bordering Tikapur, Bhajani, and Hasulia are coming through customs fraud. "The highest revenue collection in Kailali is from sugar, cement, iron bars, etc.," the source said, "but why aren't these items among the 'top ten' revenue-raising items of the customs?" Because there is more smuggling. '
