What you should know
The customs office at Bhairahwa in Rupandehi has collected 95 billion 19 million 38 lakh 99 thousand revenue in the financial year 2081/082. The amount was collected from July to mid-June last year. The recovery target is 87.07 percent.
In the last financial year, the customs had set a revenue collection target of 1 trillion 9 billion 33 crore 22 lakh 52 thousand rupees. According to the information officer of the office, Narendra Prasad Chaudhary, the revenue collection was close to the target last year. Compared to the previous financial year 2080/081, there has been an improvement in recovery. In the previous financial year, 80 billion 84 billion 17 lakh 48 thousand revenue was collected.
According to information officer Chaudhary, last year the most number of motorcycles were imported on the basis of imports. During that period, 16 billion 91 million 85 million 44 1 lakh 44 thousand 194 motorcycles of all types of thousand were imported. For that, 17 billion 21 crore 21 lakh 27 thousand revenue was collected. Jeeps, cars and vans are imported in second place. Last year, 3,761 such vehicles worth 4 billion 15 million 15 lakh 38 thousand were imported. 10 billion 35 crore 47 lakh 96 thousand revenue was collected from this.
Similarly, 3.97 billion 15 lakh 68 thousand revenue has been collected from the import of 70 thousand KL worth of 6 billion 89 million 11 lakh 9 thousand. Other major items contributing to the recovery are electric vehicles, double pickup vehicles, pure iron, mobiles/telephones, MS billets, chocolates and LP gas.
The contribution of the top 10 items to the revenue is 44 billion 88 billion 53 lakh 27 thousand. This is 47.15 percent of the total revenue collection, Information Officer Chaudhary informed.
