The local administration ordered the Chiti VDC-8, Ritthibagar-based winery to furnish official documents after promoters of the company failed to produce such documents during an onsite inspection conducted by District Monitoring Committee (DMC) on Thursday.Assistant Chief District Officer of Lamjung Tirtha Bahadur Adhikari had led the inspection at the winery following complaints about its opaque transactions.
The company has been producing and selling liquors for the past five years.
Laxman Adhikari, accountant at District Treasury and Comptroller Office, said the winery could produce only the certificate issued by the Department of Cottage and Small Industries (DCSI) and license issued by the Inland Revenue Department during the inspection on Thursday.
According to officials, the winery failed to preset balance sheet, tax clearance certificate, annual audit report, sales and production report and PAN and VAT inscribed receipts, among other documents.
The monitoring team also found that the industry do not have any signboard and also lacked hygienic production area. Similarly, it had tampered-with alcohol measuring machine.
Bharat Raj Bista, manufacturing chief of the industry, however, said that those documents were have been taken to Kathmandu for auditing. "We will bring all the documents within a week and furnish them to the concerned authority," he said.
The annual production capacity of the winery is 90,000 liters. This means it produces liquor worth Rs 29.9 million annually.
Officials of District Treasury and Comptroller Office Lamjung said they were studying whether or not the company was paying taxes regularly.
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