6 companies including Google Facebook and Microsoft registered in Nepals tax system
File: Google logo Kathmandu, July 5 International companies working in the field of information technology and rendering digital services such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft have been registered in Nepal’s tax system. The government of Nepal put in place the provision related to the digital service tax under the Financial Act to bring foreign companies dealing in electronic services under the ambit of the country’s taxation system. Accordingly, the six international companies were registered in Nepal, said Sadhuram Pudasaini, Tax Officer at the Large Taxpayers’ Office. According to Office, three companies having offices in Singapore – Google Asia Pacific Private Limited, Microsoft Regional Sales -Private Limited and LinkedIn Singapore Private Limited- have been registered in Nepal. Likewise, three other international companies registered in Nepal are NCS Pearson Inc, EBSCO and Meta. With this, social networking sites such as Instagram and WhatsApp and LinkedIn have been reg...