January 21: The number of taxpayers has increased in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) of late.    
The number of taxpayers was 324,120 in the last fiscal year, which has increased to 343,340 in the current fiscal year, said Dhruba Kafle, the chief of KMC's Revenue Department.    
According to Kafle, 35, 057 taxpayers have increased under the heading of  'rental taxpayers', 31,916 have been added under the heading of business taxpayers and 52,486 have added under the heading of property taxpayers.    
The number of taxpayers has gone up in other tax headings as well. The metropolis' revenue collection has also significantly increased with the increase in the number of taxpayers.    
Kafle said that KMC has collected approximately Rs 5 billion in revenue in the first half of the current fiscal year.    
KMC has been collecting revenue under 36 different headings, including property tax, house rent tax, business tax, advertisement tax, entertainment tax, land tax and VAT. -- RSS