It is ridiculous why the 'VAT Department' is not involved in this case, and only the 'Department of Commerce and Supply Management' is involved. The retailers are openly saying they paid more than Rs.2000 but the wholesaler gave them the receipt of only Rs.500, reason of which is clear - to evade the sales/VA Tax.


If what retailers are saying (that they paid more to wholesalers than indicated in the receipt) is not true, then it is clearly a violation of 'Kalobajari Aain' - "Black-marketing and Some other Social Offenses and Punishment Act, 2032 (1975)".


To those who are saying businesses can freely set their sales prices, all i can say is: it seems they are talking about Perfectly Competitive Market, but they don't care if the market we are talking has fulfilled basic assumptions of perfectly competitive market. Provision of regulating bodies (नियमक निकाय ) arises when those assumptions are not fulfilled. Someone can oppose the 1975 Act, but the act was/is totally necessary given the very spirit of all modern time constitutions in Nepal, the preamble of which starts with "लोक कल्याणकारी राज्य कायम गर्न ......" |