Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle has directed to tighten revenue leakage control. In a meeting of the Central Revenue Leakage Control Committee chaired by Finance Minister Wagle on Thursday, he asked to stop the tendency of one body to sideline another and blame others. 

In the meeting, Wagle directed to immediately work on the problems of revenue leakage control by making a special action plan with time limits, assigning responsibilities, making all bodies resource-rich, and arranging additional infrastructure and equipment at the checkpoints.

Finance Minister Wagle said that the only reason why the administration, which is considered capable of managing major works and incidents, is not successful in regular works is the tendency not to work in the mission model. 

He said that the government has a clear roadmap to carry out regular works in the action plan, adopt a policy of reducing the rate of revenue and increasing the scope for revenue growth, and focus on systemic reforms. "By creating an environment for tax compliance, an environment will be created to bring individuals, groups or classes involved in smuggling towards self-employment and entrepreneurship through state policies," he said.

The meeting has decided to prepare an action plan by ensuring agency-level responsibilities for controlling revenue leakage and to start demonstrable work results from today, reduce the number of non-filers, work in a manner that results are visible in the recovery of arrears and invalid settlements, resolve issues related to tax disputes as soon as possible, emphasize capacity development of agencies and human resources involved in controlling revenue leakage, and continue systemic reforms.