Decision To Impose Duty On Cross-Border Shopping 'Impractical' .

The government decision to impose custom duty on the import of goods worth Rs 100 from India has been termed unrealistic.

The government’s decision, bringing in an Act, to collect tax from even an imported product worth Rs 100 has affected common public and government employees.


This new provision was introduced randomly, said Mohan Adhikari, a customs official stationed in Biratnagar.

Nepali people go to India for certain work and bring some goods when they return, but it’s not justice to impose custom duty on petty goods, he said.

Chief of Armed Police Customs Patrol Team DSP Nirankar Shukla said the new decision has triggered a long queue of people on the border to pay custom duty for the goods they bring into Nepal.

This has created a problem in security, he said. He said people will not obey such a decision brought in without any homework and its implementation will meet tough resistance.

Editor of Udhgosh daily Mohan Bhandari said in the name of collecting revenue public shouldn’t bear the brunt by letting off the smugglers.

A cloth trader at Jogbani, Jandu Tapadiya, said if authorities implement customs rule effectively there is no need of imposing custom duty on goods worth Rs 100. The tendency of collusion between smugglers and customs employees should come to an end, he said.

Chief of Biratnagar Customs Office Binod Bahadur Kunwar said officials are struggling to implement the decision to impose tax on goods worth Rs 100.

Source : myrepublica.com