FM Mahat comes clear on MPs' questions
Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat informed the House of Representatives today that Ram Krishna Shrestha was engaged as a junior assistant but had no part in taxing various things, including imported goods. He stated that Shrestha, who had worked as a typist at the finance ministry for years, was hired for the position because he was capable, efficient, and knowledgeable.
Responding to members' questions in the House, Minister Mahat stated that Shrestha was not privy to sensitive budget conversations and only performed what the responsible authorities instructed him to include in the budgetary paper.
Shrestha played no part in the decision-making process, according to Mahat.
Minister Mahat stated that he had not permitted any intermediaries or commercial houses with vested interests to interfere in the budgetary process were trying to build a narrative that unauthorized persons had interfered in the budgetary process.
Mahat stated that the government has taxed imported electric vehicles judiciously, but that the government was also worried that electric vehicle dealers were not passing on the government benefit to their customers.KP Sharma, Chairperson of the CPN-UML Oli stated that while the government benefited from the finance minister's clarification, there was no reason for authorizing marijuana/cannabis farming.
"There is no plan to increase agro products, but there is a pledge to allow cultivation of marijuana/cannabis," he continued.
Oli stated that if a license for marijuana/cannabis production was obtained, local farmers who derive minor benefits from wild marijuana plants will be detained and tortured.
Oli further stated that if the budget was enacted in the House on the basis of a simple majority, it would fail to provide the desired consequences in actuality as was the case last year.
He stated that the administration disputed outsiders' influence in the budget last year, but did not state that similar errors would not be repeated.
Bimalendra Nidhi, the leader of the Nepali Congress, claimed Oli's speech before the House was unworthy of a response and that his own party's legislators found it uninteresting.
He stated that the finance minister had attempted to enhance all sectors, but that success would be dependent on budget implementation. He, on the other hand, claimed that the cooperatives sector, one of the economy's three foundations, was being overlooked.
Previously, independent legislator Amresh Kumar Singh suggested that a parliamentary committee be constituted to investigate the involvement of middlemen in the budgetary process. He claimed that star hotels paid relatively minimal taxes on imported fish, but that commoners did not people were bearing the brunt of high taxes on daily commodities such as onions and potatoes.
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