Cambodia Daily slapped with huge tax bill

Government-aligned media outlet Fresh News has published a leaked letter from the Taxation Department to the Cambodia Daily claiming that it owes $6.3 million in back taxes, a disclosure accompanied by scathing anonymous “letters” attacking the English-language newspaper and prominent NGOs.

The leak on Friday night came hours after Prime Minister Hun Sen, at a Council of Ministers meeting, instructed the interior, foreign and finance ministries to examine whether NGOs in Cambodia are paying income tax for their personnel.

The document was first made public on the Facebook page of opposition lawmaker Ou Chanrith, who said after the letter’s release that his page has been compromised by hacks since April and that he was not responsible for the leak.

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