Author: Himalaya Post

– Ram chandra Rupakheti  Advance country collects more than 40 percent of its total GDP. People feel very happy paying tax because of high degree of social welfare and effective utilization of public fund. However, a typical developing country collects 15 percent of its GDP in tax contribution. Very few people become happy in these developing and least developed countries. Simply, tax means an obligation of every citizenship of the nation on income. It has many synonyms such as duty, levy, tariff, toll, excise, impost, contribution etc. It is the source of public expenditure. Indeed, paying tax is a burden, which we all must live with; however, it is also pertinent to take into consideration that taxes and other forms of indemnity imposed by the government which ultimately plays a crucial role toward the welfare of humanity. There are so many different types of taxes, but some of the common ones are value added tax (VAT), income tax, excise duty, custom duty, capital gain tax etc. Our nation’s tax system is progressive system where each higher income holder is obliged to pay higher tax rate on income. Tax rates of income from employment starts from one percent to thirty six percent which are being levied. The registered companies pay income tax at the rate of 25 to 30 percent in Nepal. They are some examples of tax rates. In Nepal, bank and financial institutions, insurance companies,...

– Pratik Sing Thakuri The human civilization started taking its full pace once the idea of embracing views and opinion mutually had established. However, in some specific area we not only embraced the views but saturated it.  Those saturated views took a form of practices and belief. Normalizing things on saturation are very difficult, if not impossible. The numbers of fundamentalists are not in a small number in any belief system. In other words, culturally brainwashed individuals whose critical thinking nerves have been amputated make a significant population in every society. Any views striking their beliefs could be totally offensive or intolerable to them. It is the same population who is making the whole essence of religion very ugly. One may think how ungrateful I am being towards religion. Well, I am not. I am not being negatively biased to prove my points and my reservations are not with religion but with the perception of religion. So where is the problem? The problem is in the new school of thought which has distorted perceptions toward religion. If it is defined within a silver coating, even then the iron inside has been completely oxidized. The religion now is nothing but a marketing philosophy that creates fears and greed on people to sell its product. It is the same thing which invented the system of beliefs and barricaded the human tendency...