KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress (NC) leader Shekhar Koirala has urged the government to waive certain taxes on petroleum products to provide relief to people.

Taking to social media on Friday, Koirala wrote, “The government should reduce the infrastructure tax on petroleum products by Rs 10, road maintenance tax by Rs 4 and customs and declaration fee of Rs 25.23 by half to Rs. 12.62, in total Rs 26.62 per liter, for as long as the price in the international market does not go down.”

He viewed such a decision on exempting taxes as inevitable to save the people from the scourge of inflation and for keeping the economic activities dynamic.

जनतालाई महंगीको चपेटावाट बचाउन र आर्थिक गतिविधि गतिशिल बनाई राख्न सरकारले पेट्रोलियम पदार्थको मुल्यमा लाग्ने पुर्वाधार कर रु१०, सडक मर्मत कर रु४ र भंसार र प्रज्ञापन शुल्क रु२५.२३ को आधा रु१२.६२ गरि जम्मा रु २६.६२ प्रति लिटर अन्तराष्ट्रिय बजारमा मुल्य नघटदा सम्म नलिने निर्णय गरोस।

— Dr Shekhar Koirala (@Shekharnc) June 24, 2022