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Junta collects taxes on home entertainment
Burma’s junta earn money from collecting taxes on home entertainment from villages in Pong Pa Khem sub-township, Mong Ton Township, in Eastern Shan State on the Thai-Burma border, according to our reporter based on the border.
By: Lieng Lern
(Tel:++6683 1537724)
On 11 February 2008,
Colonel Myint Oo, Commander of the Area Operations Command, ordered the township
municipality headed by Sai Aung La to collect taxes on entertainment appliances
such as TV, VCD, satellite dishes from the villagers at Meken, Na Kawng Moo and
Mong Hang.
According to the source, between Pong Pa Khem to Meken
villages, almost every house owns a VCD player. If the houses have three
appliances such as TV, VCD and Satellite dishes, they have to give Kyat 20,000
($16) per household. Some houses which do not own these three things still have
to pay Kyat 20,000($16). Other houses that have auto satellite dishes have to
pay Kyat 40,000($32).
In Hwe Aw village, there are 30 households which
own the VCD players, 65 in Na Kawng Moo, 20 in Meken and 40 in Mong Hang players
and together 155 households own a VCD player each.
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