{"id":301436,"date":"2026-05-29T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=301436"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:40:05","slug":"here-are-the-policy-changes-proposed-in-the-budget-statement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/here-are-the-policy-changes-proposed-in-the-budget-statement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the policy changes proposed in the budget statement:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle has proposed some important changes proposed in the income tax for the coming fiscal year. <\/p>\n<p>Tax rates modified:<\/p>\n<p>The limit of personal income tax has been increased from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Up to this limit, only 1% will be taxed. This provision will be applicable only to those who are not included in the Social Security Fund. In addition, the concept of couple\/husband-wife has been removed in the taxable income calculation limit. <\/p>\n<p>Rs. 10 to 15 lakhs \u2013 10%<\/p>\n<p>Rs. 15 to Rs. 25 lakhs \u2013 20%<\/p>\n<p>Rs 25 to Rs 40 lakh \u2013 27%<\/p>\n<p>Above Rs 40 lakh \u2013 29%<\/p>\n<p>The deduction limit for donations or donations to tax-exempt organizations has been increased to Rs. It has been increased to 3 lakhs. Earlier, it was only Rs 1 lakh. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, the limit of payment of cash expenses has been reduced to Rs. 25,000 have been settled. <\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers who adopt the &#8216;Safe Harbour Rule&#8217; will not have to submit documents related to transfer pricing. <\/p>\n<p>Relief in Section 57:<\/p>\n<p>Section 57 of the Income Tax Act will not be attracted if there is a change in ownership due to death or change in holding institution. <\/p>\n<p>Banks and financial institutions will also be affected by the removal of Section 47 (a). <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Internal Revenue can make a special billing system mandatory in addition to the CBS system. <\/p>\n<p>TDS will not be levied on retirement fund payments. Previously, the rate was 5 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The ambiguity between contribution-based and non-contribution-based funds has been removed. <\/p>\n<p>Provisions relating to capital gains tax:<\/p>\n<p>Those holding more than 365 days will be taxed at 7.5% and 10% for less than 365 days. And such a tax will be the final tax deduction. <\/p>\n<p>In case of land purchase and sale, capital gains tax will be levied at 7.5 percent for more than five years and 10 percent for less than 5 years. <\/p>\n<p>The government has capped the tax on mandatory acquisitions at 2.5%. <\/p>\n<p>Ride-sharing businesses (e.g. driver, Pathao, etc.) will attract 5% VAT and taxable service charges TDS (TDS) at 1%. <\/p>\n<p>The evaluation period for a full audit has been reduced to 3 years. This will be a big relief to the business organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle has proposed some important changes proposed in the income tax for the coming fiscal year. Tax rates modified: The limit of personal income tax has been increased from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Up to this limit, only 1% will be taxed. This provision will be applicable only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":301301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45060,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-corporate-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301437,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301436\/revisions\/301437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/301301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}