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BizMantra Seminar on “Budget 062/063
Tax and VAT Implication for Export
Business”: BizMantra is organising a Seminar
on "Budget 062/63 Tax and VAT Implication for Export
Business" on 9th September, 2005 in Radisson Hotel.
It welcomes participation from all the entrepreneurs and
managers involved in export business.
We are fortune to have Dr. Chandramani Adhikari
as the resources person for this seminar. Dr. Adhikari is
a renowned expert in tax management. A senior tax officer
in Inland Revenue Department (IRD), he is the only PH.D
in income tax and tax management.
We will also have the benefit of presence from a
representative from IRD for the question and answer
(Q&.A) session.
Agenda for the Day
02:00 PM – 02:15 PM Registration
02:15 PM – 02:30 PM Welcome Speech
02:30 PM – 04:00 PM Seminar presentation
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM Q&A Session
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM Closing
Refreshment
Date: Friday, 9th September, 2005
Time: 02:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Radisson Hotel
Registration and Participation fee: Rs. 700 per
person
To
participate in the program please register by 6th
September, 2005 at the BizMantra
Secretariat
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BizMantra Workshop in Association
with NYEF (16 Aug '05): BizMantra is
going to organize its sixth promotional workshop
inassociation with Nepal Young Entrepreneur Forum (NYEF).
The workshop is scheduled to be held on the 2nd of
September, 2005. The Participants of this workshop will
be the members of NYEF.
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Fifth BizMantra Promotional
Workshop Held (3 Jul '05): BizMantra,
SME Toolkit Project, Nepal, organised its fifth
Promotional Workshop in association with Handicraft
Association of Nepal (HAN) today at Radisson Hotel. The
workshop was conducted for half - day.The participants
of this workshop were the members
of HAN.
The BizMantra Promotional Workshop aimed at
demonstrating the effective use of BizMantra for
developing the capacity of entrepreneurs of Nepal
involved in the handicraft sector. The participants were
given a brief overview of the project as
well.The participants were made familiar with the
articles, forms, interactive tools and resources of seven
core business areas in BizMantra: Business Planning,
Legal and Insurance, Accounting and Finance, Human
Resource, Marketing, Operation and
Technology.
Speaking on the
occasion Mr. Trishakti Joshi, Executive Director of
BizMantra said, "Entrepreneurs involved in the
handicraft sector has played a great role in the economic
development of the country. BizMantra
is here toassist the
managers and entrepreneurs in the handicraft sector with
better business process."
Mr. Pancha Ratna Shakya, President of HAN
shared, "This worshop has been organised in order to
improve the capacity of the members of HAN.
BizMantra has emerged as a new concept to train and
provide consultancy to the SMEs. I believe using
BizMantra will even help the non-business educator to get
knowledge about different business aspects. He stressed
the member participants to use BizMantra and be in
contact with the BizMantra secretariat to improve their
business."
About 70 HAN members participated in the
workshop and found it informative and fruitful. The
workshop was interactive and the participants also put
forth their suggestions to make BizMantra more
informative and SME friendly.
Mr. Bikash Ratna Dhakwa, Vice-President, HAN
thanked the BizMantra Team for organising the workshop,
the media for disseminating the information and the
members for their active participation.
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BizMantra Workshop (28 Jun
'05): BizMantra will organise its
next workshop in association with the Handicraft
Association of Nepal (HAN) on Sunday, 3rd of July, 2005.
About fifty memebers of HAN will participate in the
workshop. The subject matter of the workshop will contain
an overview of BizMantra and its contents
and demonstration of the effective use of the
toolkit for developing the capacity of local business. It
also aims at getting feedback from the participants
to make BizMantra more useful and relevant to local
businesses.
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1st South
Asia Partners Meeting (26 May '05): The
first South Asia Partners Meeting on the SME Toolkit was
held in Thimpu, Bhutan. The participanting countries were
Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Two members from Nepal
participated in the meeting. They gave presentation on
BizMantra, SME Toolkit Project in Nepal. The partners
shared their experiences on the Project and discussed the
future course of action.
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Fourth BizMantra Promotional Workshop
Held: BizMantra, SME Toolkit Project, Nepal,
held its fourth Promotional Workshop in association with
Trekking Agents Association of Nepal (TAAN) on Friday,
6th of May, '05 at Radisson Hotel. The participants
of this workshop were the young entrepreneurs of TAAN,
who are the members of TAAN Young Entrepreneurs of Nepal
(TYEF). Besides this participation privilege was also
given to other entrepreneurs who were constantly in touch
with BizMantra.
The Promotional Workshop aimed at demonstrating the
effective use of BizMantra for developing the capacity of
young entrepreneurs of Nepal who were involved in the
trekking field. The participants were made familiar with
the articles, forms, interactive tools and resources of
seven core business areas in BizMantra: Business
Planning, Legal and Insurance, Accounting and Finance,
Human Resource, Marketing, Operation and
Technology.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Trishakti Joshi,
Executive Director of BizMantra said, 'Tourism is the
back bone of the economy. Like other business sectors
this sector if managed properly can attain its target.
BizMantra is here to assist the managers and
entrepreneurs of the tourism sector with better business
process."
Mr. Ashim Pradhan, Member of TYEF shared that
such promotional workshop provides a forum to get views
and ideas to boost up one's company.
Mr. Bishwesh Shrestha, Executive member of TAAN,
opined, 'Management functions are inevitable but
often neglected. This is the right time to correct our
past mistakes. Learning is a never ending process, so,
TAAN and TYEF will keep in touch with BizMantra for
future assistance as well.'
The workshop was conducted successfully with 30
participants from TYEF.
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Lobbing for Trading House
Concept:The BizMantra
Team met the members of Export Council of Nepal (ECON)
and cleared the problems they had dealing with VAT rules.
The members of ECON also felt that there are certain
impracticalities regarding the existing VAT
rules.
Following this meeting BizMantra and ECON
jointly went to the VAT office and met Mr. Avanindra K
Shrestha, Director General, Value Added Tax (VAT) and Mr.
Heem Bahadur Rawal, Executive Member & Chairman,
Revenue Committee and lobbied for Export Trading House
Concept. This concept states that all the products sold
to the export houses would be considered as exports, thus
no VAT will be applicable for such
transactions.
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Third BizMantra Promotional Workshop
held: BizMantra, SME Toolkit Project,
Nepal, held its third Promotional Workshop in
association with Women Entrepreneurs' Association of
Nepal (WEAN) on Sunday, 13th March, '05 at Hotel Blue
Star. The participants of this workshop were the memebers
of WEAN.
The Promotional Workshop aimed at demonstrating
the effective use of BizMantra for developing the
capacity of women entrepreneurs of Nepal. The
participants were made familiar with the articles, forms,
interactive tools and resources of seven core business
areas in BizMantra.
Mr. Trishakti
Joshi, Executive Director, BizMantra, welcoming the
participants and the team stated the need of
better business practices and modern management in
small and medium enterprises.
Speaking on
the occassion Ms. Chhaya Sharma, President, WEAN,
expressed that business information toolkit like
BizMantra is very useful, needful and informative for the
SMEs. She requested the member participants of WEAN to
use BizMantra to bring in better business
process.
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Second BizMantra Promotional Workshop
held: BizMantra, SME Toolkit Project,
Nepal, held its second Promotional Workshop in
association with Export Council of Nepal (ECON) on
Sunday, 13th Feb, '05 at Hotel Blue Star. The
participants of this workshop were the memebers of
ECON.
The Promotional Workshop aimed at demonstrating
the effective use of BizMantra for developing the
capacity of export trading houses and getting feedback
and suggestions from the participants to make the project
and the product more useful, helpful and relevant for
them.
Mr. Trishakti Joshi, Executive Director,
BizMantra, welcoming the participants and the team stated
the need of better management practices in small and
medium enterprises. He shed light on specific forms and
information available in BizMantra for export business
provided by Inland Revenue Department (IRD). He further
shared that BizMantra is working in close coordination
with IRD to provide updated information to the
SMEs.
Mr. Yagya Narayan Gupta, Immediate Past
President, ECON, stressed on the need and importance of
such toolkit for the exporters to strengthen their
competence, knowledge and business.
To add value to the workshop the participants
were distributed BizMantra kit at the registration desk
which enclosed brochures of BizMantra, Shuvha SYDREC,
Solutions Consultant, Bank of Kathmandu, Shikhar
Insurance; Metro City Paper (bitarak.com); BizMantra CD;
Table of Contents of BizMantra; Information on Refund of
VAT and Product Evaluation Form. Further the participants
were also given the information detail of the contact
person for Refund of VAT.
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BizMantra Holds its First Promotional
Workshop (30 Dec '04): The Promotional
Workshop on BizMantra, SME Toolkit Project, Nepal,
was organized by BizMantra in association
with Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries
(FNCSI). The workshop was inaugurated by Krishna Gopal
Shrestha, Minister of State for Local
Development.
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Press Release:BizMantra -
SME Toolkit Project, Launched in Nepal (23 Nov
'04): Elite
Networks and Communications Pvt. Ltd., managing partner
of SME Toolkit Project Nepal has launched a web based
business toolkit called BizMantra. It is available for
free at www.bizmantra.org. Honorable Deputy Prime
Minister Mr. Bharat Mohan Adhikari inaugurated the launch
ceremony.
Mr. Anil Sinha, General Manager of SouthAsia
Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF) welcomed the
guests and highlighted on the objectives of SEDF to help
the SMEs of Nepal, Bhutan, South-East India and
Bangladesh build their capacity. He stated that SEDF is
proud to partner with Elite Networks in this project. He
said that in the near future the contents of BizMantra
will also be available in books and cds.
BizMantra targets startups and ongoing
businesses which desire to excel. The objective of
launching business toolkit in Nepal is to make the
business sectors aware of the importance of proper
documentation, information management, current market
issues, human resource policies and legal requirement for
the enterprises so that the business sectors are managed
in a professional way.
BizMantra contains articles, forms, trainings,
tools and resources on seven core categories necessary to
carry on a business. The seven categories are: Business
Planning, Legal and Insurance, Accounting and Finance,
Human Resource, Marketing and Sales, Operations and
Technology. With the help of this business toolkit they
can be better managed, sustain the business growth, and
focus on future.
Mr. Trishakti Joshi, Executive Director, Elite
Networks, on his vote of thanks stressed that with
Nepal’s accession to WTO on the need of the SMEs in Nepal
to upgrade their managerial skills, their capacity to
gather and manage information and use of modern
technology, that enables to be more productive and
competitive are even greater. He strongly believed the
need of information among different enterprises in Nepal
and pointed that BizMantra aims to achieve these
processes.
Among others, present in the ceremony his
Excellencies, entrepreneurs and managers from the
business sector.
About IFC:
SME Toolkit is a project of the International
Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank
Group. The mission of IFC is to promote sustainable
private sector investment in developing countries,
helping to reduce poverty and improve people’s life. IFC
finances private sector investments in the developing
world, mobilizes capital in the international financial
markets, and provides technical assistance and advice to
governments and businesses.
About SEDF:
The South Asia Enterprise Development Facility
(SEDF) is a multi-donor funded facility promoted and
managed by IFC. Launched in October 2002, with its
headquarter in Bangladesh, SEDF is currently mandated to
cover Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Northeast
India
About Elite Networks:
Elite Networks is a technology solution
provider. Started in 1992, Elite Networks has specialized
in structured cabling, system and network integration,
wireless networking, ERP solutions and
services.
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BizMantra Released (21 Sep
'04):Elite Networks
and Communications Pvt. Ltd. announced the release of the
beta version of BizMantra, a web based toolkit for
managers and entreprenuers of Nepal. It provides the
business sector with cutting edge information on seven
core business areas; business planning, legal and
insurance, accounting and finance, human resource,
marketing and sales, operations and
technology.
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Press
Realase (21 Jul '04): A memorandum of
understanding was signed on July 19, 2004 in Dhaka,
Bangladesh in-between South Asia Enterprises Development
Facility and Elite Networks and Communications Pvt. Ltd.
to implement the SME-Toolkit Product in
Nepal.
Elite Networks
will be localizing the global content of SME-Toolkit to
suit Nepalese context, culture, trends, rules and
regulations. It will also be conducting number of
promotional workshops in Nepal.
The South Asia SME Toolkit is a project of the Small and
Medium Enterprise (SME) Department of the World Bank
Group and South Asia Enterprise Development Facility
(SEDF).
SME Toolkit was
initiated to promote local small business growth in
developing nations by creating a powerful synergy and
underscore a strategic commitment in improving lives by
creating opportunities in small
business.
About Elite:
Elite Networks is a technology solution provider. Started
in 1992, Elite Networks has specialized in structured
cabling, system and network integration, wireless
networking, ERP solutions and services.
About SEDF: The South Asia Enterprise Development
Facility (SEDF) is a multi-donor funded facility promoted
and managed by the International Finance Corporation,
IFC, (private sector arm of the World Bank Group).
Launched in October 2002 with it’s headquarter in Dhaka,
SEDF is currently mandated to cover Bangladesh, Nepal,
Bhutan, and Northeast India.
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MoU
Signed (19 Jul '04): A memorandum of
understanding was signed today in Dhaka, Bangladesh
in-between South Asia Enterprises Development Facility
and Elite Networks and Communications Pvt. Ltd. to
implement the SME-Toolkit Product in
Nepal.
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