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| New Findings Reveal Taliban Collecting Tax in Ghazni |
| 2018-01-11 |
| [ToloNews] An investigation by TOLOnews has found that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have been collecting taxes from the business community in Ghazni province over the past six months. Reports indicate that Taliban officials even take tax from businessmen in the historic provincial capital. Meanwhile a Taliban front man has said that the group successfully collected over three million AFs from Ghazni alone this year. In addition local officials have said that the Taliban has nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! dozens of locals after they refused to pay tax to the bully boys. Ahmad Farid Omari is a local businessmen in Ghazni who was forced by the Taliban to pay 200,000 Pak rupees in illegal tax. Omari was initially asked for 400,000 Pak rupees in tax. But he managed to convince the Taliban to accept 200,000 rupees. "Taliban operate just five kilometers from the city which belongs to the capital of Ghazni, Taliban told us to pay the money in that place and said we will receive a slip for the amount paid, but we did not go there to pay the money; Taliban’s men came in from the city who we did not recognize and we paid the money," said Omari. The business community is outraged over the issue, saying they are paying tax both to government and the Taliban. But the Taliban have said the group collected the tax to ensure security of trade convoys on the highway. "No businessmen are left in Ghazni who have not paid the tax, even there are claims that members of the provincial council have also paid the money," said Hassan Reza Yusufi, secretary of Ghazni provincial council. "The majority of members of Taliban’s Quetta Shura ...Taliban's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... (council) which is the biggest council in the Taliban leadership are from Ghazni," said Abdul Karim Mateen, governor of Ghazni province. Local officials say that from the total of eighteen districts in Ghazni, Nawah, Zankhan, Gero, Ajristan, Gelan, Dahyak, Andar, Waeez and Khogyani are dealing with high security threats. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 one is done by criminal organizations, while the other is done by government agencies... Hmm is there a difference between the two? |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-01-11 22:27 |
| #2 How is extortion fundamentally different from collecting taxes? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-11 21:56 |
| #1 How is "collecting taxes" functionally different from extortion? |
| Posted by: T. Panda2560 2018-01-11 02:16 |