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| Om Yentieng, the director of the Anti-Corrupiton Unit. (Photo: VOA Khmer) |
Phnom Penh Friday, 08 October 2010
“The tax agents overcharged for the annual vehicle tax with invoices and without. We are putting the complaints on the table to prepare a procedural process.”
The Anti-Corrupiton Unit is preparing to examine some 90 complaints of graft by tax officials from the Ministry of Finance.
Ninety complaints from 2,700 people across 14 provinces were filed with the unit last month, after a watchdog group claimed people were paying too much for annual vehicle tags.
Om Yentieng, the director of the ACU, told a roundtable of media representatives on Tuesday the unit had prepared all of the complaints for formal processing.
“The tax agents overcharged for the annual vehicle tax with invoices and without,” he said. “We are putting the complaints on the table to prepare a procedural process.”
Om John, deputy chief of the Ministry of Economy and Finance's tax department, said the department too is studying the complaints for possible investigation.
San Chey, a project coordinator for the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability In East Asia and the Pacific, which helped collect and file the complaints, welcomed the news.
“This unit is not ignoring the complaints from people” he said. “I strongly encourage the Anti-Corruption Unit in helping an additional investigation and taking action to eliminate corruption in the collection of annual vehicle taxes.”
San Chey said he had not included the names of tax officials in the complaints but would provide them if requested.
4 comments:
be grateful cambodia created this gov't agency; otherwise, you have nowhere to complain to, really! of course, it's just a beginning, and they need all the support they can muster!
Hun Sen's tax on automobile is the highest in the world 2 times the price of new vehicle for example if your new car cost $10000+20000 in tax which is $30000. This tax is to prevent Khmer people from buying cars which safer than motorcycles and shorten Khmer livihood by driving motorcycles because they cannot afford to buy new cars. Used cars are cheaper but you have to spent alot of money to repair it which make Khmer people poorer. Motorcyles are not designed to carry 4 people but in Cambodia we have to during an accident the whole family are dead or very seriously injured. That what Hun Sen has done is to kill Khmer people by themselves.
Done talking:: Hun xen is a killer period.
HUN XEN is scared of his own shadow.
HUN XEN creates a monster... very soon what the monster job is? ...
The Monster is Youn ... his youn thing will ........... fill in the blank yourself...
your boss SRP is monster to make Cambodia country corruption .
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