Now you can use different wallets to pay taxes in the Kathmandu Metropolitan.
The taxpayers in the Kathmandu metro will now be able to pay for property tax, land tax, rent (house rent/business rent), and other taxes online.
To establish the digital payment service, Kathmandu Metropolitan has developed its tax payment portal and integrated several wallets into it. The facility will be useful for the residents within the valley to pay taxes for various services at their convenience over the internet.
The service brings relief to those who wish to avoid physical contact and pay cashlessly.
Now, the public won’t have to stay in long queues for just such payment.
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Requirements
To start using digital wallets to pay taxes in Kathmandu, you will need to visit the nearest Kathmandu Metro ward office and submit your information. Then you must sign up to get username and password at this link. Following this, you can perform the online transaction for land, rent, trade, and other taxes via several wallets including ConnectIPS.
How to pay for taxes in Kathmandu?
To pay for different kind of taxes (Property tax, House rent tax, business rent tax, trade tax etc) in Kathmandu Metro, you need to follow the steps as.
- First you need to have already evaluated your property and the rent information for the amount of tax to pay. For which, you need to visit your respective ward office of Kathmandu metro. Then submit a form for that, with the information required. Then you will get the Internal serial number and taxpayer serial number. If already evaluated, you can go to the next step.
- Visit Kathmandu metro taxpayer eservice portal and then signup with the above information from the KMC ward office. After signing and confirmation with OTP, you can check all the info for the tax to be paid for the particular fiscal year.
- Then you can go to Evaluate (Mulyankan garnus) in the front page, and you will pay the pending tax bill for the particular Fiscal year.
- You will get the amount to be paid as displayed on your screen.
- Then, you can now pay for the Sampati kar, Ghar bahal kar (taxes) in KMC via eSewa, Connect IPS, Khalti and IME pay.
Digital Payment Rising
The trend of digital payment is spiraling in Nepal and each bank and Financial Institution is making an impact with their own offers. The race to be better digital services has massively benefited consumers.
Recently, a QR code-based payment service at Chabahil vegetable and fruit market. Sunrise Bank began the service to allow consumers to pay cashless at the famous market site. The bank has also set up free WiFi to encourage everyone to jump towards online payment.
Meanwhile, NIC Asia launched a digital remit service in collaboration with iPay to help Nepalese abroad transfer money through the mobile app. With the service, iPay users living in Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Korea, America, Britain, and Mid-East countries will be able to wire money back to their friends and family in Nepal.
The digital payment system is well and truly on the rise with each month reaching a new milestone. Recently, FonePay, a QR-based payment processor even set a record of transactions of one billion on a single day. A testament to the evolution of digital payment in Nepal.
Do check: Top 5 Digital Wallets in Nepal: Updated (2024)
The ability to pay utility bills, shopping, or restaurants, etc has made online payment a mainstream mode in Nepal, especially the youths. The way it is proliferating, cashless payment will be the most preferred mode for the majority of smartphone users.
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