KATHMANDU, June 15: The government has filed a lawsuit against a company, claiming Rs 1.368 billion on charges of tax evasion.
The Department of Revenue Investigation (DoRI) has registered the case against Nepal Can Move Pvt Ltd and its operators for concealing sales income and failing to report value-added tax (VAT) in their income statements, thereby committing large-scale VAT and income tax evasion. The DoRI is demanding Rs 684.4 million in unpaid taxes and Rs 6.8 million in fines, totaling Rs 1.368 billion.
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The DoRI has filed a case on Sunday against Nepal Can Move Pvt Ltd, Nepal Can Group Pvt Ltd, and their shareholder-directors Sudip Acharya, Jiwan Gyawali, Ganga Bahadur Thapa, Manish Prasad Acharya, Mithu Paudel, as well as the Deputy Executive Director of the company, Sangam Paudel, on charges of revenue leakage.
Nepal Can Move Pvt Ltd, located in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-32, Tinkune, is accused of tax evasion through an online system used for its business operations. The DoRI took control of the online system and, after a thorough investigation, recovered important documents and evidence, including the trial balance of transactions from the fiscal year 2019/20 till mid-March in the fiscal year 2025/26.
During the investigation, the DoRI claimed that the company had kept the portal’s server in Australia to evade Nepal’s tax administration oversight and conducted large-scale sales through it, but concealed the sales income from the Inland Revenue Department’s records, thereby evading a significant amount of VAT and income tax.
During the investigation, it was found that the main shareholders of the company, defendants Sudip Acharya (holding 55.33 percent shares) and Jiwan Gyawali (holding 16 percent shares), repeatedly failed to appear despite repeated summons from the DoRI and were absconding.
The case has been filed on the basis that the company manipulated service sales by manually billing to hide the actual sales transactions, which constitutes revenue leakage under the Revenue Leakage (Investigation and Control) Act, 2052 BS.
