{"id":49193,"date":"2026-06-09T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49193"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:26:50","slug":"na-meeting-lawmakers-slam-alleged-change-in-tax-rates-in-budget-demand-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/na-meeting-lawmakers-slam-alleged-change-in-tax-rates-in-budget-demand-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"NA meeting: Lawmakers slam alleged change in tax rates in budget, demand probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 9: Members in the National Assembly (NA) have alleged that tax rates were altered in the budget speech for the upcoming fiscal year 2083-84 BS, demanding an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Taking time in a session of the upper house today, they voiced for the formation a committee to probe the allegations.<br \/>\nLawmaker Tul Prasad Bishwakarama said media reports have claimed that 16 pages were removed from the Finance Bill within in 24 hours of its presentation in parliament and that a revised version was subsequently issued. He demanded a thorough investigation into the matter with its clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Renu Chand accused the role of Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle in such changes, seeking the investigation into it.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Narayan Datta Mishra and Meena Singh Rakhal demanded replies from Prime Minister Balendra Shah regarding his statement on Nepal-India relations.<br \/>\nThe NA shall meet again at 1:00 pm on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 9: Members in the National Assembly (NA) have alleged that tax rates were altered in the budget speech for the upcoming fiscal year 2083-84 BS, demanding an investigation into the matter. Taking time in a session of the upper house today, they voiced for the formation a committee to probe the allegations. Lawmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49196,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193\/revisions\/49196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}