{"id":900,"date":"2024-04-07T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2024-04-07T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:12:12","slug":"finance-minister-pun-pledges-to-ensure-transparency-while-setting-tax-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Pun pledges to ensure transparency while setting tax rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BIRGUNJ, PARSA:<\/strong> Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun has vowed to maintain transparency while determining the rate of revenues in the budget statement for the next fiscal year 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the interaction program on \u2018revenue consultations and budget preparation\u2019 organized by the Ministry of Finance and the Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industry today, he stated that due to the controversies surrounding fluctuations in tax rates in previous years, the upcoming fiscal year\u2019s budget statement will provide clear explanations with reasons for any changes in tax rates.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Pun also pledged not to alter tax or revenue rates to favor any specific individual or industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to ensure there are no controversies in tax rates this year. We will establish clear thresholds and proceed accordingly,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>He assured support for establishing Birgunj as an \u2018economic city\u2019 as demanded by local industrialists and businesspersons.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated the federal government\u2019s commitment to developing Birgunj as an industrial city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPokhara was recently declared the tourism capital. The Prime Minister himself attended the declaration ceremony organized by Pokhara\u2019s local government and Gandaki Province, announcing Pokhara as the tourism capital.<\/p>\n<p>The demand from Birgunj\u2019s industrialists and businesspersons to declare it as an \u2018economic city\u2019 is highly encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government will support if Birgunj Metropolitan City and the Madhes Province propose the same,\u201d stated the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p>He described Birgunj as both an industrial city and the economic capital, mentioning plans to develop Birgunj as a special economic zone.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the government will move forward in alignment with the desires and aspirations of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Calling upon politicians, the business community, civil society, and bureaucrats to collaborate and contribute to the country\u2019s development and prosperity, he reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to formulating policies to safeguard the industrial sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRGUNJ, PARSA: Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun has vowed to maintain transparency while determining the rate of revenues in the budget statement for the next fiscal year 2024\/25. Speaking at the interaction program on \u2018revenue consultations and budget preparation\u2019 organized by the Ministry of Finance and the Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industry today, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}