{"id":3414,"date":"2020-03-21T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/03\/21\/bandipur-waives-50%-tax-for-business-firms\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:40:00","slug":"bandipur-waives-50-tax-for-business-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/03\/21\/bandipur-waives-50-tax-for-business-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandipur waives 50% tax for business firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bandipur Rural Municipality in Tanahun district has announced to waive 50 per cent tax to the commercial firms after the business enterprises here have suffered from the effects of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The rural municipality&#8217;s decision on tax exemption would be in force for the fiscal year 2076\/077.<\/p>\n<p>With the announcement of the local government, the entrepreneurs here have expressed happiness calling it a &#8216;welcome step&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Tanahun Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Bandipur, Baisha Gurung said that the move to exempt tax to the business firms would act as a relief to the business people.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a tourist season, tourist arrival in Bandipur is almost nil owing to Covid-19 fears.<\/p>\n<p>Hotelier Basanta Poudel said that the rural municipality&#8217;s decision would being a small sigh of relief as they are struggling even to pay the interest about to the bank due to slowdown in business.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, vice-chair of rural municipality Karuna Gurung said that the step was taken to stop the business people from being discouraged amid the threat of coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the rural municipality has also requested to the financial institutions to lower the interest rates and the house owners to ensure subsidy in the house rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandipur Rural Municipality in Tanahun district has announced to waive 50 per cent tax to the commercial firms after the business enterprises here have suffered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[340,330],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-damauli","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}