Government
Municipal Department bad treated the poor with tax
Independent Mon News Agency
Recently the Burmese
Government Municipal of Pegu town, in east of
The municipal collect taxed
20,000 kyat on the couple,
The poor couple faced the
problems that they cannot pay because they tried to repair their house with a
few amount. However, the municipal officer collect taxed on them with many
amount of money by order later.
According to the Buddhist, an
abbot, in Pegu, the municipal officer taxed his donor
that build home and hurt. The municipal taxation is higher than the spendeture of the building, an abbot added. “The municipal do not care that
the people, who want to prepare their house, are poor or rich. Whatever the people have,
they taxed,” the abbot said.
The
government start creating this kind of tax as a policy’s rule and let the municipal departments to start taxing on the people who live in
each states and divisions, more than five years ago.
Yesterday,
a man who is building a wooden house from Three Pagoda, Karen state, said that
town municipal taxed more than 2000 Baht on them .if we exchange with Burma
money ,it is equal to 100,000 kyat.
Beside,
he added that some time, people have to pay more than 0.2 million kyat as
the building tax
“I
don’t believe that the municipal do like this, because I only repair small
space in the kitchen of my house but they taxed us 4000 kyat,” said
In the
last, the government municipal is taxing on people who live just on urban area
but now the government is also trying to extend collecting the tax in the
village and rural area.
Some
village headmen who want to get face from the government authorities did taxing
on people’s new building. Most of the village headmen in the exemplary villages
created by the government wish it.
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