Mechi Customs Office collects over Rs 11bn in eight months

BHADRAPUR, JHAPA: Mechi Customs Office has collected Rs 11.58 billion in revenue in the first eight months of current fiscal year 2025/26. This is 96.06% of the target set for the same period.

Information Officer Ishwar Kumar Humagain said the target was to collect Rs 12.55 billion by the end of Falgun of the current fiscal year.

In the eight months, collections under customs heads included Rs 4.89 billion under customs duty, Rs 220 million under export customs duty, Rs 63 million under customs-related other income, Rs 629,000 under the export service fee and Rs 100 million under the agricultural reform fee.

Collections under other tax and fee heads comprised Rs 264.22 million under excise duty, Rs 392.38 million under the road maintenance and improvement fee, Rs 1.22 billion under the infrastructure tax, Rs 1.22 billion under the health-risk tax, Rs 4.20 billion under value-added tax (import) and Rs 132.35 million under the green tax.

The office has set an annual target of collecting a total of Rs 18.87 billion for the current fiscal year 2025/26 (2082/83 in the Nepali calendar), Humagain said.

(With inputs from RSS)