Collecting income taxes, but no receipt in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The income tax office of Maungdaw Township is collecting income taxes from businessmen (retail and whole sale shopkeepers) but the office didn’t issue any receipts to the businessmen, said a businessmen who denied mentioning his name from Maungdaw.

U Thein Chey, the assistant township income tax officer, issued the ordered to the businessmen to pay the taxes to the office immediately, otherwise he will find more, the businessman said.

U Thein Chey is collecting taxes from Mungdaw businessmen (especially Rohingya community) 60,000 kyat to 30,000 kyat per shop depend on the financial condition, said an officer from income tax office.

“The officer collected taxes from Rohingya community, but, no receipts were issued about the taxes. If someone asked for receipt, the officer said that we had already issued the receipt.”

“The income tax office only issued summoned letters to the people with the ordered of U Thein Chey and there is no other paper issued to the people.”

There are more than 2000 shops (In markets and under the public building) and the office collected huge money and how much the office submit to the revenues office, said a politician from Maungdaw.

Recently, the officer also called again to the building owner who rented their ground floor for business and asking to pay taxes for business. The building owners had paid their taxes of building to the office regularly. How the building owners pay again the taxes for building, the politician said.

“The income tax officer wants double taxes from building owners showing the building are using in the business.”
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