Banke. Nepalgunj Customs Office has collected revenue of Rs 9.34 billion in the first six months of the current fiscal year 2082/83.

Information Officer at the Nepalgunj Customs Office, Pabitra Kumar Khadka, said that 38.08 per cent of the target was collected in the first six months of the current fiscal year. According to him, the annual target of revenue collection in the current fiscal year of Nepalgunj Customs is Rs 24.54 billion, but it has not been able to achieve the target of monthly in any month so far. To meet the target, around 62 percent of the customs revenue has to be collected in the remaining six months.

Nepalgunj customs office collected 74.14 per cent of the target of Rs 1.86 billion in mid-July and Rs 1.38 billion in mid-August and Rs 1.35 billion in the first six months of the current fiscal year.

Similarly, 87.83 per cent of the target of Rs 1.98 billion in the month of October was Rs 1.74 billion 16.5 million, 72.30 per cent of the target of Rs 2.12 billion in the month of October, 1.53 billion 70 million 82 thousand against the target of Rs 1.96 billion in the month of October, 83.45 per cent of the target of Rs 1.96 billion in the month of November and 1.63 billion in the month of December. Out of the target of Rs 2.03 billion, revenue of Rs 1.69 billion has been collected.

According to the statistics of the office, in the previous fiscal year 2081÷82, the target was 73.00 percent. 67 percent, 66.62 percent of the target in August, 66.91 percent in September, 76 percent in October. It was 44 per cent, 76.27 per cent in December and 71.15 per cent in December. Nepalgunj Customs Office has exported goods worth Rs 38 billion in the first six months of the current fiscal year 2082÷83. According to the Customs Office, transaction worth Rs 38.98 billion was recorded till mid-January 2018. In the first six months of the current fiscal year, the office imported goods worth Rs 37.62 billion while exports amounted to Rs 1.35 billion.

In the same period of the previous fiscal year, the office had imported Rs 35.27 billion and exported goods worth Rs 1.16 billion. Imports increased by 6.66 per cent, exports by 16.71 per cent and total trade by 6.98 per cent. The trade deficit from the office remained the same in the first six months of the previous fiscal year and the current fiscal year. Information Officer Khadka said that the trade deficit in the first six months of the previous fiscal was 96.7 per cent while it was 96.38 per cent in the current fiscal year.