A watchdog organization says the Ministry of Economy and Finance's tax collectors are bilking the country out of at least a million dollars a year by overcharging for annual vehicle stickers.
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Wednesday, 01 December 2010
“Next year, we want to see those guilty of corruption sentenced to prison.”
Thirty tax officials will face the loss of their jobs, after an investigation by the new Anti-Corruption Unit.
Om Yentieng, a senior government advisor and head of the ACU, told reporters Wednesday the 30 agents from the Ministry of Finance’s taxation unit had overcharged vehicle owners as much as $1.20 per annual registration tag.
The ACU was acting on complaints filed by an NGO on behalf of more than 200 citizens who said they were routinely overcharged for vehicle registration.
The complaints were the first real test of the ACU, which was formed as part of a recently passed anti-corruption law. Some 2,700 people from 14 provinces contributed corruption complaints earlier this year.
“I will send all the evidence concerning the 30 agents to the Ministry of Economy and Finance and its general department of taxation tomorrow morning to make administrative punishments,” Om Yentieng said. “I believe that anyone who has made a serious mistake will be sacked from his or her job.”
Other administrative punishments can include the loss of promotion or suspension.
The ACU has compiled a 14-page brief, provided to reporters, that identifies the alleged corrupt agents, provides photo IDS and lists the sites were they allegedly bilked motorists of their money.
According to the brief, vehicle owners were overcharged for annual registration on “pretexts,” such as the cost of forms themselves, of filling out the forms or even for the purchase of drinking water.
San Chey, a project coordinator for the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific, which gathered the complaints, said administrative punishment was acceptable for now.
“Next year, we want to see those guilty of corruption sentenced to prison,” he said. “But for this year, administrative punishment is an acceptable act for civil society.”
Om John, deputy chief of the Ministry of Finance’s tax department, said agents would not escape punishment.
17 comments:
Finally, Hun Sen is kicking some azzes. Arrest all those corrupt criminals and make them pay back the money owed to the State Treasury. Hun Sen used to give an interview that he alone is always patriotic and uncorrupt, but his men who are corrupt and making him look back nationally and internationally. Now Hun Sen starts to kick some bad azzed Hun Sen's henchmen.
Can Hun Sen kick his own ass, too? He is among the notorously corrupt persons.
To fight Corruption must start from the top.
Corruption is the heart of Cambodia.
It is everywhere and part of ASEAN culture.
Put Tom Neay: Hoon Xen will be killed in 2012 by the people. All Cambodia will rise up to make this Put Tom Neay happen.
Hun Sen Thok
អាអ្នកនិយាយពុទ្ធទំនាយផ្តេសផ្តាសអីហ្នឹង ដល់គេចាប់ញាត់គុកតាំងថាគេបិទមាត់វាមិនឲ្យនិយាយទៀតហើយ ។ យ៉ាប់ណាស់ពួកអាអស់នេះ ។
It is a good move, but how many? Hope it is as normal. Show something to dilute koh pichkheat tragedy?
this is only small fish caught, regarding to the corruption. there are so may corruption cases in many sectors, especially for the public services such as:
making ID card,
birth, dead and married certificate,
permission for house construction or repair,
making or changing land title or ownership,
corruption in bidding of adb or wb project,
corruption in education and health sector,
corruption in giving state land to relatives or private companies without transpiration bidding,
and there are many more to be added .....
BRAVO ACU! BRAVO MR. OM YIN TIENG!
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THOSE MISERABLE
AGENTS ARE MAKING MONEY FOR THEIR
BOSSES?. LITTLE GUYS GO TO JAIL,BUT
BOSSES GET RICJHER?
1.1.2011 government officer's property will be announced in confidential. But many cambodian people will guest the property of those officers
such as Hoon Xen- 800 mill.
ta sim - 500 mill.
ta sarin - 400 mill and other ministers may be from 100-300 mill
corruption usually involved with money. so the ministry of finance who are in charge of collecting taxes, the custom department, etc, must be scrutinize thoroughly by the anti-corruption committee, etc... they handle the country's finance, so, they must be audited careful or they will cheat the nation!
Yis anis base on animal law, always use threat to against freedom of expression.
Make sure to get all their money, car, jewlery and theirs house. auction that shit to the people. make them go broke and throwm them in jail!
people in business is different, they are not so corrupted. it's the people in gov't that corrupted the most, i believe because they use their power and influence to steal, cheat, etc... from now on, make it hard for all of them. tell them their position will not be permanent if they are found corrupted to the bone, etc! khmer people demand they are held responsible and accountable for their dirty and illegal, personal conduct for their own gain, etc... they gov't can sue them, tell them! educate them! they better stop or they will be punished by the new law! people with the eyes of the pineapples are watching them from now on! make it like neighborhood crime watch where the whole community is looking out for each other in cambodia. hey, this is a new cambodia, must play by the rule, ok!
one key areas of reform in cambodia is for gov't to strengthen and reform the country's tax collection system. yes, tax the rich to help the poor, otherwise, people will still suffer in cambodia. yes, have better tax management in cambodia. it will make all the difference, you know!
Hun Sen and his CPP clean their lower officials first before they mop up themselves because they want to be the richest in the country.
To become rich,they use many kinds of tricks and bad manners to rob from other persons
It is very easy to work out who have been corrupted.
1-Your salary each year after tax
Salary after tax X No of working years= Total moneys received after tax.
2-Your tatal assets= Total each year( after taxes) + All properties ( minus mortgages)
All your surplus from your legal incomes were all from your corruption income.
Areak Prey
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