Tax Department reaches out to HR NGOs

At least three local NGOs have been called for questioning by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s Taxation Department to clarify their tax payments, amid an aggressive tax collection campaign that has recently gone after media outlets the Cambodia Daily, Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.

While the government has long sought to improve its tax collection, many of those to receive calls from the Tax Department in recent days have also drawn the ire of the government in the past.

Rights NGOs Adhoc and Licadho and elections monitor Comfrel were each asked last Wednesday to appear before the department two days later. Licadho and Adhoc both asked to postpone the meeting while representatives from Comfrel did meet last week with the government. All three maintain they pay their required taxes and that this was the first time they had received such a request.

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