Kathmandu, June 27
The government says it is restructuring the Department of Revenue Investigation as an economic intelligence unit of the government.
A recent Cabinet meeting has already endorsed the proposal to restructure the body. Accordingly, the Department has been brought under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers from the Ministry of Finance.
The Department’s Director General Dirgha Raj Mainali says the number of total staff in the Department has been reduced so as to maintain confidentiality of investigation process. However, the number of legal personnel has increased as there is a need to formulate and implement new laws.
As the intelligence agency, the Department now will collect secret information about economic affairs and launch confidential investigations about them. The government hopes that doing so will make the government stronger in tax evasion cases.
Meanwhile, Mainali says government staff working in cahoots with the traders for tax evasion will not be spared now onwards.
