The Revenue Investigation Department has filed a case in Patan High Court on Sunday against 6 people on the charge of evading huge amount of revenue by operating their company's portal server from Australia and keeping an office in Tinkune, Kathmandu.

A case has been filed on charges of evading revenue of one billion 368 million 11 thousand by operating the company's business portal server in Australia. 

It has been demanded to recover the defrauded revenue amount from the accused and sentence them to jail. According to the department, Nepal Can Move Pvt. Ltd. has taken control of the online system portal.NepalCanMove.com (NCM), which has been used for business transactions since the fiscal year 2076/077, and kept the company's business out of reach of the tax administration of Nepal.

The Department has also requested the Immigration Department to stop the foreign travel as the accused have defrauded a large amount of revenue. This is the first time that the department has filed a case of revenue evasion from this type of business.  When the team of the

department seized and investigated the documents with the trial balance of the company opening business up to February 2081, the server of the portal  In in Australia, it was seen that a large transaction of service sales was not submitted to the Internal Revenue Office . It has been seen that a large amount of income tax and VAT has been evaded in the submitted transactions. It has been seen that they have been operating cargo and courier services by keeping offices in three corners of Kathmandu.

It has been seen from the research that they have helped in the delivery of the goods sold online and the service fee charged for this is also low in the business . The department filed a case against company directors Sudip Acharya of Tilotama Municipality-2 Rupandehi, Jeevan Gyawali of Ruru Rural Municipality-5 Gulmi, Ganga Bahadur Thapa of Jhapa Rural Municipality-6, Manish Prasad Acharya of Madhyapur Municipality-3 Bhaktapur, Mathu Paudel of Tansen Municipality-7 Palpa and the company's employees (Deputy Executive Director) Sangam Paudel of Lalbandi Municipality-1 Sarlahi for the offense of revenue leakage. Yes . 

Ganga Bahadur, Manish and Sangam have also been arrested and submitted to the court. Mithu, who was arrested, has been detained by the department, while 2 people are absconding. According to the Revenue Department, a letter has been sent to the Immigration Department to stop them from traveling abroad as they can escape. 

According to the investigating officer, the accused initially tried to hide their business . During the investigation, they were arrested while taking a statement after the amount of revenue leakage was found to be large. Revenue raided the office of the company in Tinkune last week of February. In the statement issued by Krishna Kumari Shrestha, deputy executive director and spokesperson of the

department, it is mentioned that Sudip, who owns 55.33 percent of the company's shares, and Jinav, who owns 16 percent of the shares, have been unable to get in touch with the department several times. According to the investigating officer, Sudeep and Jeevan seem to be playing the main role in revenue fraud by conducting business in Australia.  

The value added tax (VAT) eligible amount of 78 million 28 lakh 46 thousand 7 hundred 67 was seen by breaking the company's service sales and concealing the real transaction through manual billing . The department claims that the value added tax of 13 percent and the interest of 15 percent of the said amount has been evaded by 267 million 500 five hundred and 15 towards VAT. 

Similarly, according to the Revenue Leakage Act, the penalty of 100% of the income of the previous financial year, 15% interest on installments, has been fixed at 423.6 million 55 thousand, 245 as of June 2082. A total of 684 million 44 lakh 5 thousand 760 was fixed by the department under the headings of VAT, income tax, interest and installments. According to Bego, the department has demanded to collect Rs.