Straightforward notes for Nepal VAT, salary, payroll, loans and everyday work.
Useful guides
These are written to answer the questions that usually come up around a calculation. Each guide includes sources, a date and the people it is most useful for.
A step-by-step method for deciding whether a sale is standard-rated, exempt, zero-rated or outside Nepal VAT before issuing an invoice.
Understand the three VAT classifications that are most often confused and why they produce different invoice and input-credit results.
How to monitor the separate turnover thresholds for taxable goods and taxable services without waiting until year-end.
A balanced decision guide covering customer expectations, input credit, administration and pricing before voluntary VAT registration.
What a business should verify before issuing or accepting a VAT invoice, including corrections and simplified invoices.
Build output VAT from taxable value, rate and timing while avoiding VAT-inclusive pricing and rounding mistakes.
A five-part evidence test for deciding whether VAT paid on a purchase can reduce output VAT in a Nepal VAT return.
How to identify private, exempt, unsupported and specially restricted purchases before claiming VAT credit.
A practical framework for businesses that share rent, utilities and overhead between taxable and exempt supplies.
Understand the import VAT base, border cash requirement and when import VAT may become recoverable input credit.
Why an export can be zero-rated rather than exempt and what evidence supports the treatment and related input credit.
How to correct a commercial transaction without deleting the original VAT trail or moving the adjustment to the wrong period.
Why invoice, payment and delivery dates matter when deciding the VAT period for advances and staged supplies.
A practical overview of Nepal’s digital-service VAT procedure for non-resident platforms and online service providers.
How online orders, platform commissions, delivery charges and seller identity affect VAT invoices, ledgers and returns.
How to manage the standard VAT filing and payment timeline, approved tax periods and notice-based extensions.
Understand late-return amount, additional fee and interest without combining them into one unexplained percentage.
A repeatable close process joining sales, purchases, imports, inventory, invoices, ledgers and the VAT return.
A calm evidence-first process for responding to VAT information requests and reconciling disputed input or output tax.
A practical prevention list covering registration, pricing, invoices, credits, returns and record keeping.
A reusable review sheet for classifying a new offering before launch, pricing and invoice configuration.
A plain-language guide to the retirement-age question in Nepal: what ends with employment, what must be checked with SSF, and why “after 60” is not a complete answer.
An honest starting guide to the FY 2083/84 tax-relief schemes: who should pause, which records to collect, and why an application form matters more than a headline.
For taxpayers who have not filed one or more income-tax returns: how to organise the years, payments and supporting records before seeking an Economic Act 2083 scheme.
A practical guide for businesses with VAT-return gaps, unpaid declared tax or old arrears—what to separate, what to reconcile and how not to use a scheme blindly.
A practical guide to Nepal’s industry classifications, the fixed-capital test, and why an SME label for banking or tax is not automatically the same as an Industrial Enterprises Act classification.
A practical explanation of Nepal’s enacted FY 2083/84 remuneration-tax schedule, annualisation, SSF treatment, deductions and monthly take-home estimates.
Understand how Nepal’s 31% Social Security Fund contribution is divided, how it affects payslips and why employer contribution is not employee cash take-home.
Learn how to reconcile a total employer package into Basic salary, Allowance, employer SSF or CIT/PF, employee deductions and monthly take-home.
A practical guide to employee CIT/PF, employer contributions, SSF overlap and the FY 2083/84 approved-retirement deduction limitation.
Understand annualisation, projected monthly TDS, festival allowance, bonuses, joining mid-year and why salary tax is not simply calculated month by month.
A practical checklist for preparing, reviewing and retaining a Nepal salary-tax calculation sheet without confusing it with an official IRD certificate.
See why two loans with the same quoted rate can have very different EMIs and total interest under flat-rate and reducing-balance methods.
Learn how recurring extra payments and one-time prepayments affect reducing-balance loans, total interest and payoff dates.
Understand Bikram Sambat conversion, accepted input formats, weekdays, date differences, tithi limitations and how to verify an important date.
A practical comparison of Nepali Unicode and legacy Preeti text for websites, email, search, documents, copy-paste and long-term compatibility.
Practical Roman spellings, candidate-selection habits and safeguards for producing better Nepali Unicode on desktop and mobile.
