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Farmers in remote Jaray Gewog are a step closer to gaining crucial market access, as work on the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Serpang–Autsho inter-dzongkhag road...
༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་དངུལ་ལས་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ བཟའ་ཁང་ཚུ་གི་ ས...
Green Digital Limited (GDL) and Clean Kinetics signed a Joint Venture (JV) Ag...
Bhutan’s carefully cultivated image as a green success story needs journalism that is willing to look...
༉ འབྲུག་སླར་འབྱུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འཛིན་དང་ ཨ་དཱ་ནི་གློག་མེ་ཚད་འཛིན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་ན་ ཐབས་བྱུས་ཅན་གྱི་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ འབྲུག་གི་ཆུར་བརྟེན་གློག་མེ་ནུས་ཤུགས་ མེ་ག་ཝཊ་༥,༠༠༠ གི་རྩིས་ གློག་མེ་ནུས་ཤུགས་ཀྱི་ ལས་འགུལ་ལཱ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་༡ པའི་ཚེས་༣ ལུ་ གོ་བརྡའི་ཆིངས་ཡིག་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བུམ་ཐང་ཆོས་འཁོར་རྒེད་འོག་ལས་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༥༤ ལང་མི་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ དཱན་ཊག་ལས་འགུལ་གྱིས་ འབྲུག་ཚ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ ག་ནི་བ་གལ་ཆེ་བའི...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ དཀར་སྦྱིས་ས་རྒེད་འོག་ མཆོད་རྟེན་སྙིང་པོ་ལྷ་ཁང་གི་འོག་ལུ་ ཁྱིམ་ཆུང་ཀུ་ཅིག་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༤༠ ལང་མི་ བཟའ་ཚང་ཡ་ཅིག་འབད་མི་ཨའི་གིས་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གཉིས་དེ་ཅིག་གི་རྩིས་ མོ་རའི་བུམོ་ཀླད་ནད་ཐོབ་མི་པདྨ་བཟང་མོ་དེ་ འབག་སྟེ་སྡོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ན་ཧིང་གི་ལོ་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ལྟ་བཤལ་འོང་ནིའི་གྱངས་ཁ...
Vehicle prices in Bhutan continue to be a point of contention, especially when compared with those in neighbouring I...
When the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into force on January 1, public attention largely centred on prices, complia...
The Ministry of Finance projects that revenue from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will reach Nu 14.18 billion in the fiscal year 2026-27. This is a 47.2 percent increase, or an additional Nu 4.55 billion, from the Nu 9.63 billion collected in sales tax revenue in the fiscal year 2024-25.
For Phuntsho Wangdi, a corporate employee, the impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is fe...
Article 8 (8) of the Constitution and Article 14 requires that "the Government shall ensure that the cost of recurrent expenditures is met f...
Bhutanese take great pride in belonging to one of the few states in Asia never to have been colonized. While history often attri...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) should prevent retailers from facing a cascading price effect by allowing them to claim credit for taxes paid at earlier stages of the supply chain, according to officials.
The impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) is being felt most immediately and visce...
Prices in most shops have jumped five percent overnight. In Changzamtog, a couple sits at their tiny wooden table, counting what little money they have left. The husband, the sole breadwinner, earns Nu 17,...
The new excise tax (ET) framework, effective from January 1, has led to price increases for alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and pan masala - goods deemed harmf...
The government has introduced a range of tax relief measures for individuals under a new income tax framework rolled out alongside the Goods and Services Tax, aiming to ease financial pressure on households.
The government is yet to announce when the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund mechanism for tourists and short-term vi...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime is likely to affect the sports sector, as several sports-related goods that were previously exempt now attract a five percent tax.
Article 8 (8) of the Constitution and Article 14 requires that "the Government shall ensure that the cost of recurrent expenditures is met from internal resources of the country." This constitutional responsibility is crucial to national self-sufficiency and Gross National Happiness, not only tax compliance or civic duty.
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make tax...
Consumers are facing short-term price increases as the country transitions to the G...
Bumpa Wangmo, former regional manager of Bhutan Industrial Gas (BIG), has been sentenced...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཤའི་གནད་དོན་སྐོར་ལས་ དཀའ་ངལ་བསལ་མ་ཚུགས་མི་དེ་ ནང་འདྲེན་ལུ་ཤུགས་ཆེ་སུ་བརྟེན་མི་དང་ ཚུལ་མིན་ཐོག་ལས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་མི་ བཟའ་ཆས་ཉེན་སྲུང་མེད་མི་དང་ ནང་འཁོད་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ལུ་ཉེན་ཁ་བྱུང་མི་དེ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ཁང་གིས་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ར་ སྒོ་ནོར་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་གུ་ལུ་ རྩོད་བསྡུར་ཚུ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) should prevent retailers from facing a cascading price effect by allowing them to claim credit for taxes paid at earlier stages of the supply chain, according to officials.
The impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) is being felt most immediately and viscerally in the agriculture and livestoc...
Prices in most shops have jumped five percent overnight. In Changzamtog, a couple sits at their tiny wooden table, counting what little money they have left. The husband, the sole breadwinner, earns Nu 17,0...
The new excise tax (ET) framework, effective from January 1, has led to price increases for alcohol, tobacco, carbonated...
The government has introduced a range of tax relief measures for individuals under a new income tax framework rolled out...
The government is yet to announce when the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund mechanism for tourists and short-term vis...
Consumers are facing short-term price increases as the country transitions to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system, w...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that liberalised ownership rules and eased approvals.
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...
Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make taxation fairer, more efficient, a...
Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct response to our readers’ growing needs and a conscious preparation for the n...
Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referred to as the third sector, CSOs have emerged as indispensable partners in Bhutan’s pursuit...
The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...
The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...
The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing total participation beyond 22,500, must be celebrated as a national moment. The overwhelming number of volunteer...
The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act....
Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...
In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...
The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country. Over the years, this has...
For 15-year-old Nima Dema, a student from Tendruk Central School in Samtse, the opportunity to take part in the ongoing...
The resumption of works on the 1,200-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project I offers a flicker of hope. After all, th...
Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...
We love to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. In fact, we use these words in excess in policy d...
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