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Budget 2084/841 min read
Government Vows "Mission Mode" Push to Revive Capital Spending
The Finance Minister also said the government will appropriately address the difficulties faced by construction entrepreneurs due to the price rise in fuel, bitumen, and other construction materials caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
Dipesh Ghimire30 May, 2026
Budget 2084/842 min read
Government to Overhaul Laws to Boost Investment, Ease Doing Business
To ensure financial access for small and medium entrepreneurs, the government will provide credit guarantees on a "first loss recovery" basis.
Dipesh Ghimire30 May, 2026
Top1 min read
Government to Slash Operating Costs, Eyes Rs 20 Billion in Savings
According to a preliminary estimate, these measures are expected to save around Rs 20 billion.
Dipesh Ghimire30 May, 2026
Top1 min read
Federal Bureaucracy to Be Streamlined, 31 Agencies to Be Scrapped
The Finance Minister also said arrangements have been made to continuously and respectfully increase the benefits and facilities of civil servants, the army, police, and teachers, with the aim of enabling the bureaucracy to live a dignified life and making it highly efficient, performance-driven, and accountable.
Dipesh Ghimire30 May, 2026
Tax Rates2 min read
Sweeping Review of Tax Rates, Income Tax Exemption Threshold Doubled
Similarly, a new provision has been made to settle tax disputes pending in courts or judicial bodies. Under this, if a taxpayer pays the assessed tax amount with an additional 1 percent within the specified deadline, the case will be withdrawn and the fees, fines, additional charges, late fees, or interest will be waived.
Dipesh Ghimire30 May, 2026
capital gains tax3 min read
Government Sends Mixed Signals to Investors: "Final Tax" Promise Comes Bundled With a Rate Hike
What remains to be seen is how the market absorbs the contradiction. A "final tax" that arrives hand in hand with a higher rate may be remembered less for the simplicity it offered than for the extra cost it carried. For now, investors are left weighing a promise that sounded generous against a law that quietly asked them to pay more.
Dipesh Ghimire30 May, 2026
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Money Into Public10 min read
Nepal Pours More Money Into Public Enterprises — And Gets Less Back
Whether it does so, or whether the report joins its predecessors on the shelf while the numbers continue to move in the wrong direction, is the question that the coming budget season will begin to answer.
Dipesh Ghimire28 May, 2026
Nepal's Economy9 min read
Nepal's Economy Grows at 3.85 Percent — But the Numbers Tell Two Very Different Stories
It shows a country with genuine strengths and genuine weaknesses, navigating a difficult global environment with uneven domestic tools. What happens next depends less on the numbers in the survey and more on whether the people responsible for acting on those numbers are prepared to do something different from what they have done before.
Dipesh Ghimire28 May, 2026
Nepal Rastra Bank9 min read
Tightrope Without a Net: How Nepal Rastra Bank's Regulatory Push Is Testing the Limits of a Fragile Financial System
That second half remains unfinished, and it is the work that Nepal Rastra Bank — and the government that sets its broader mandate — must now turn toward with urgency and with a clearer eye for the trade-offs that every policy decision in a fragile, developing financial system inevitably involves.
Dipesh Ghimire28 May, 2026
Budget 2084/848 min read
Nepal's Financial Sector at a Crossroads: Too Much Money in Banks, Too Little Moving in the Economy
A budget that addresses only one or two of these dimensions while ignoring the others will produce headlines but not healing. What Nepal's financial sector needs this year is not a list of schemes — it needs a coherent, credible, funded strategy for rebuilding the conditions under which money moves, trust holds and the economy grows from within rather than being sustained from abroad.
Dipesh Ghimire28 May, 2026

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All Articles — Page 44

Government Vows "Mission Mode" Push to Revive Capital Spending

Government to Overhaul Laws to Boost Investment, Ease Doing Business

Government to Slash Operating Costs, Eyes Rs 20 Billion in Savings

Federal Bureaucracy to Be Streamlined, 31 Agencies to Be Scrapped

Sweeping Review of Tax Rates, Income Tax Exemption Threshold Doubled

Government Sends Mixed Signals to Investors: "Final Tax" Promise Comes Bundled With a Rate Hike

Nepal Pours More Money Into Public Enterprises — And Gets Less Back

Nepal's Economy Grows at 3.85 Percent — But the Numbers Tell Two Very Different Stories

Tightrope Without a Net: How Nepal Rastra Bank's Regulatory Push Is Testing the Limits of a Fragile Financial System

Nepal's Financial Sector at a Crossroads: Too Much Money in Banks, Too Little Moving in the Economy

NEPSEtrading

Primary issues

Income & debt

Live market

Read & learn

NEPSE Trading Network

Insights & Analysis

All Articles — Page 44

Government Vows "Mission Mode" Push to Revive Capital Spending

Government to Overhaul Laws to Boost Investment, Ease Doing Business

Government to Slash Operating Costs, Eyes Rs 20 Billion in Savings

Federal Bureaucracy to Be Streamlined, 31 Agencies to Be Scrapped

Sweeping Review of Tax Rates, Income Tax Exemption Threshold Doubled

Government Sends Mixed Signals to Investors: "Final Tax" Promise Comes Bundled With a Rate Hike

Nepal Pours More Money Into Public Enterprises — And Gets Less Back

Nepal's Economy Grows at 3.85 Percent — But the Numbers Tell Two Very Different Stories

Tightrope Without a Net: How Nepal Rastra Bank's Regulatory Push Is Testing the Limits of a Fragile Financial System

Nepal's Financial Sector at a Crossroads: Too Much Money in Banks, Too Little Moving in the Economy