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Import of Petroleum Products Affected due to Additional Tax

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July 20: Petroleum tanker operators have criticized the decision of Birgunj Municipality to impose environment and road maintenance tax effective from the current fiscal year. The tanker operators protested against the municipality after they were asked to pay the tax. The protest of the tanker operators had briefly affected the import of petroleum products from Birgunj Customs Point.

The transport operators parked the vehicles on the road after entering the border from the Integrated Check Post (ICP) of Birgunj on Wednesday  to protest against the decision of the municipality to impose the tax. They declined to pay the tax arguing that the municipality should collect the tax from the importer instead of the transporters.

One of the transport entrepreneurs Manoj Das said that the municipality should collect the tax from Nepal Oil Corporation, the state-owned oli monopoly responsible for the overall distribution of oil across the country.

Birgunj Municipality has imposed a tax of Rs 1,000 per tanker. It has set up a counter at the highway near the ICP to collect the tax. Altogether 300 tankers import petroleum products from Birgunj Customs Point every day.

The tanker operators reached a deal with the municipality on Wednesday evening to call off the standoff after the municipality decided just to keep records of the tankers and collect the tax later on.

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