After purchasing the goods, receiving the bill is a normal process. However, Dhruv Construction Pvt. Ltd. It has been revealed that Dhruv Dev, the owner of the company, only sells bills. The Revenue Investigation Department has registered a case against him for the offense of revenue leakage in the Patan High Court, for selling only bills without selling goods and services.
The department filed an indictment on Monday against Dev for the offense of revenue leakage and demanding a fine of 1 billion 20 million 30 thousand 516 rupees. "After the complaint was received in the department, we investigated this matter from the second week of November," said Navraj Adhikari, the investigation officer of this incident. 31 By opening an office named Dhruva Construction in New Baneshwar, they used to issue bills and invoices as per the needs of the people without handing over the goods and services. According to Krishna Kumari Shrestha, spokesperson and deputy director general of the
department, issuing only invoices without transferring the goods and services is against Section 3 of the Revenue Leakage (Investigation and Control) Act, 2052. "After it is confirmed that Dev has committed an offense under Section 4 of this Act, the violation of value added tax, income tax has been fixed and 100 percent penalty has been fixed according to the law," Shrestha said, "Accordingly, we have filed an indictment in the Patan High Court with a demand for imprisonment in accordance with subsection (1)(d) of Section 23 of the Act to recover 1 billion 209 million 30 thousand 516 rupees." According to the law, the penalty for any violation above 10 million rupees is imprisonment from three years to five years.
In the charge sheet, it is alleged that Dev only issued bill invoices without handing over the goods and services, did not pay the purchase transaction through the bank, did not issue invoices sequentially, did not file value added tax statement and income statement. Similarly, false statement without paying income tax and not filing income statement, value added tax and false income tax It is also mentioned that the details have been submitted and the source of purchase of goods has not been confirmed.
According to Shrestha, the case was filed after investigating the issue of non-payment of revenue including value added tax and income tax, which should be paid to the Government of Nepal as per the rules. It has been demanded that Dev be fined 458 million 83 thousand 434 rupees for value added tax and 145 million 65 million 31 thousand 824 rupees for income tax and sentenced to prison with a fine of over 1 billion rupees including 60 million 46 million 15 thousand 258 rupees and a fine of 1 billion rupees.
