Need of Service Tax

Sometime back, in another blog, http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/ , I had advocated about need of service tax in Nepal.

In this blog post, I will be talking about the nature of service tax and in fact, I am writing what exactly service tax is. The explanation of nature of service tax will surely reinforce my belief of need of service tax, I believe.

What is SERVICE TAX?

Service tax is an indirect tax levied on certain services provided by certain categories of person including companies, associations, firms, body of individuals.

Service sector is occupying the centre stage of any country’s economy. It has become an industry by itself. In the contemporary world, development of service sector has become synonymous with the advancement of economy. Economics hold the view that there is no distinction between the consumption of goods and consumption of services as both satisfy the human needs.The Service tax is normally a destination based consumption tax and the principle of consumption of services would determine the liability of Service Tax.

In the present scenario, the government should initiate an exercise to explore alternative revenue sources due to resource constraints. The primary sources of revenue are direct and indirect taxes.

Central Excise duty is a tax on goods produced in one country whereas Customs Duty is tax on imports of goods into that country. But, the central excise and customs duty are in decline due to World Trade Organisation (WTO) commitments and due to rationalization of duties on commodities.

A system of selective approach in the levy of Service tax can be adopted while introducing service tax in its preliminary stages by levying tax upon selective services only. To start with, it should be the approach that no service tax be imposed on any of the environmental services, health and social services, legal services etc.

The service tax that should be imposed now should be on travel and tour services, hotels and restaurants for hospitality like body spa, massage, travel agency services etc.

There should be a clear attempt to tax all services in a uniform manner to avoid controversy and confusion.

Therefore, I feel that there is a great scope to tax services in Nepal under new legal framework if implemented properly by Maoists Governments.

Back again after a long time

I think I will update this blog regularly. I will see you soon after coming back here.

Good Bye Post

This Blog Page will be updated further in this address

http://talkingforum.wordpress.com

Thank You Very Much for visiting us.

Finally Back Again after a long time

This Blog Page will be updated further in this address(http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/) and not in this address (http://www.talkingforum.blogspot.com). I understand the kind of difficulty the readers of this blog face from our migration from one domain to another but I sincerely request you to condone me on this aspect. The safety of the blog and that of its contents are the primary factors, while deciding to go back to my old home, and to know the details read this Post in Details.

एउटा भनाइ नै छ नि “घुमि फिरि रुम्जाटार”। तेस्तै छ मेरो ब्लग को कहानि। मैले कहिले बाट ब्लग लेख्न सुरु गरे भन्ने जान्न त यो पढ्नु होस् तपाइले/ (http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/just-a-first-post/)। कहिले यहा कहिले त्य्हा ब्लग्गिङ् गर्दै हिनेको मान्छे म। केहि समय बाट मैले आफैलै एक किसिम को इस्ट्याबिलिटि दिने ट्राइ गरे अनि ब्लूगिङ् सुरु गरे http://www.talkingforum.wordpress.com मा/

After sometime, I found Word press blog inadequate for me because of many reasons. I thought Blogspot will be handier than Word Press. One of the reasons that I moved from my Wordpress to Blogspot was to insert some google adsense in my blog and to make little money, and that was not that bad decision. What is wrong if someone desires to earn little money from blogging. I also thought the same and inserted some google adsense. I could earn little more than 25 USD within a week and that was almost 3-4 USD per day. But, immediately Google Ad sense banned me on the reason that some unnecessary clicks were generated there and again was not wrong reason to ban me. :) After one or two appealing processes, it was clear that I was banned and that too forever. And with that ban, my main reason to decide to move to blogspot was almost shattered.

अब केवल पैसा कै लागि मात्रै ब्लग गर्या पनि होइन यो लाईफ मा/ Google adsense ले ब्यान गरे पनि, I was determined to blog continuously and kept on blogging on any issues that may have pleased to me.

अब म र मेरो ब्लग माथि अर्को बज्रपात आइलाग्यो on Wednesday, February 28, 2007. कसैले मेरो जिमेल ह्याक गर्‍यो र मेरो ब्लग पनि /

Some derogatory and adult contents were posted there which was later removed by the hackers himself. With a lot of efforts, the gmail password and Blog was recovered on Friday, March 2, 2007 from the hackers who mailed me these passwords in my another yahoo mailbox.

After efforts from our side, we found who the hacker is. He told he hacked my gmail and blog to take a personal revenge on me on the issues when we, the hacker and I, had a scuffle on the net which was ended in a event of abusing each other.
There is a saying that you will be a lone runner in the internet even if you win, after a heated arguments. It's better for us not to chat with many people or to get involved in unhealthy, unintellectual, and unnecessary discussions in the internet. And from that day, I have reduced the time of online chatting with people, and definitely not with them, whom I hardly know and have to never deal with.
we resolved the matter amicably and he returned all my passwords.

So, Chamatkaribaba and Team were back again and here we are.

अब के गर्ने, कसैले ब्लग नै ह्य्याक गर्‍यो भनेर ब्लगगिङ नै स्टप गर्ने कुरा पनि भएन । ब्लगिङ् त गर्नै पर्‍यो । And I am in my old blogpage भनेर मैले माथि नै भनि हाले । कुरो कसको ब्लग र कस्को जिमेल कसले हयाक्क गर्यो मात्रै हैन। कुरो Internet Security को हो यहा। कुरो Cyber Crimes को छ यहा/

The hacker when posted some adult contents in my webpage by stealing the passwords, then, it is the case of cyber crimes. It shows how vulnerable our internet system is and it must teach lesson to all of us bloggers regarding the safety of medium what we are using.

Before I would be writing on other issues, I would like to thank Blogger Nepal Diary (http://www.nepaldiary.wordpress.com/) (and some other Bloggers who helped) for extending generous support to recover the hacked blog page and email password in the time of distress.

I am focusing here on bloggers because, we most of the bloggers, are not so tech-savvy. We know very little about Network security and methods that we can employ to protect our pages from hackers. It seems that if knowledge is misutilized, hackers can do anything when they want.

In Nepal, with the evolution of BLOGAN, I could see that some of the activities that they are going to undertake are to teach the naïve Nepalese bloggers about the jargon in blogging world. How to make it? How to post it? How to moderate comments etc. etc. Then, the basic issue of security and how to protect our pages from slipping on the hands of so called hackers, and not only that but general safety measures as well, should be on the agenda of BLOGAN's new initiatives. An ill-intention of the criminals can not be stopped at all but protective measures can be taught and learnt, I guess.

Now, amidst the tension of hacked blog, I was unable to update my blog for so many days. So, I am writing here a long post today covering almost all the measure issues of the period. There was Holi. I could not wish anyone on time but belated happy holi and I hope that everyone enjoyed well and got hit with lola and colours. J

Here, even in foreign land, that is ( परदेशमा पनि) Holi was not less interesting/entertaining than in Nepal. We throughly enjoyed it.

You can see it in the photo. I am also there but People have poured so much colour on each other

that I am unable to recognize where I am. If you guys know, let me know hai. (ahem!!)

These are some of the Nepalese Job holders, jobless, Scholarship holders, self-finanncing students from Nepal gathered in a Flat. WE played in such a wild way that may be that flat has still smell of rotten eggs :) and we throughly understood the plight of the house owner and anger after the Holi was over. :)

Now, since the security matter has pertinent bearing on the further updates of this blog, we are moving back to our Old page in WordPress. ( http://www.talkingforum.wordpress.com) This blog will not be updated since today and we request all of you to navigate from here to our old page for many more updates. When we moved from wordpress to blogspot, our feet were in air with lots of expectation and enthusiasm; J today we are going back by keeping our controlled foot on ground and with some heavy hearts. :P But, blogging will be a continuous effort irrespective of how many obstacles we may face on the way.

Ok, Dear friends and folks, Good Bye for today. I will be updating my blog regularly here in wordpress.com. I will be back with some photos of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India in my next blog in http://www.talkingforum.wordpress.com/

Finally Back Again

We have recovered the Hacked Blog again. We will be back with updates soon!!!!!
Chamatkaribaba & Team

Barking King!!!!!!

UPDATED: People are against the king's statement and are on the streets. Well Done Guys!!! See some Photos

Photo Courtesy: http://www.nepaldiary.wordpress.com

So, King Gyanendra barked again if we have to Believe United We Blog AND yes he did. Why?

Because leaders gave him ILLEGAL space. ILLEGAL because if we had followed the principles of criminal laws, he would have been behind the bar and not in the Royal Palace guarded by some thousands of Armies. If the current government had shown that courage, he would have been travelling by Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Blue Van and not by Mercedes Benz. Not only the space he got but the leaders gave him especial space to bark. Because leaders of SPAM are not committed to fulfill the peoples' aspiration that they showed in April Uprising.

King himself is telling that he is going to take moral responsibility of the actions he did.

Good, Well Done Maharaja!!!

Now, it is time to fasten him legal responsibility, which is to punish him according to the procedure established by law.

Another Photo:

Photo Courtesy: http://www.nepaldiary.wordpress.com/

It is nothing but the king's ploy to regain little confidence among the people who have totally discarded him. It is his trick and if we allow him for a long time to be there, he knows how to play it.

What K.P. Oli is doing? Just studying the Report submitted by Rayamajhi? How many more days we have to wait to implement the report?

When Rayamajhi Commission has already shown king Guilty, King should take more moral responsibility and if he has that courage, he must request the current Cabinet to imprison him for all the atrocities committed by him from the time of Royal Massacre.

But, king never gonna tell such things and neither we can expect him to tell such things because in the history of hitherto struggle, no oppressor and dictator has said this. No oppressor has really submitted before the peoples’ will and history is a true testimony from the time of French and English Revolution.

So, what is the option?

Current cabinet must implement the Report submitted by Ramayajhi commission. Nepalese people are no more ready to shoulder the burden of Tyapee (distorted form of Tyabe which means who takes psychotropic Drug Tablets) and dopist Monarchy who are busy in transacting "नाम नखुलेको कालो पदार्थ , Nam Nakhuleko Kalo Padartha”( Some black substances, that is unknown to us).

Before the Election of Constituent Assembly, all the criminals should be put behind the bar otherwise, they start manipulating the results in the semi-consciousness created by heavy fagging.

Current Cabinet is busy to play the “game of hide and seek” with criminals Like Kamal Thapa, Tanka Dhakal, and Badri Mandal. If this continues, then, King Gyanendra not only barks but starts biting.

Maharaj, what Moral Responsibility are you talking? If you have little consciousness of Morality, You must abdicate the thrown and should declare the end of Monarchy. If not, that day is coming soon, when my nephew will not be ready to study in the same school where your grand son will study, if I got little means to afford.

And that will be solely because of you.....That day, you king Gyanendra will spit on your face. The Day is coming soon.
I do not know how many Bloggers are royalists but the bloggers committed to Democracy/Republicanism need to discuss how we can help in the true Cause of Democracy and can help to set up the Republic Nepal.

Something like BLOGAN (Republic)

More To hear KING Gyanendra's Barking, visit: http://nepaldiary.wordpress.com (IN Nepali)

http://www.blog.com.np/ (IN English)

To know about BLOGAN, Visit: http://www.nepalivoices.com/ (BLOGAN Republic is my new concept.)