New tax office to be built on Nepal-China border

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-02 14:50

KATHMANDU -- In a bid to facilitate the flow of exports and imports through Tatopani customs, a temporary facility is being built at Larcha located around 5 km from this customs office on the Nepal-China border area, The Kathmandu Post reported on Monday.

Bodhraj Niraula, director general of the customs office at Tatopani, some 120 km north of Kathmandu, said that customs inspection and duty collection will be made more convenient after the new facility is constructed.

According to Niraula, the new facility will have a parking lot and a building where taxes will be collected.

Container trucks bound for Khasa (Zhangmu) in China will be checked at Larcha after construction is completed, he added.

The check point will also handle imported goods like apples, garlic and wool.

The construction is expected to cost around 20 million Nepali rupees (some US$259,740).

Around 1,200 container trucks pass through Tatopani customs daily. There is constant congestion at the check point for lack of parking space for the containers, reported the daily.