Cambodia Daily meets with negotiator over $6.3M tax bill

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Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga

 

Frequent government interlocutor and newspaper publisher Soy Sopheap yesterday said he provided the Cambodia Daily three solutions to settle an impasse with the Tax Department over a $6.3 million tax bill, adding they should soften their tone and refrain from painting the issue as political.

 

The Cambodia Daily is facing imminent closure after it was slapped with the “exorbitant” tax bill last month and given one month to, as Prime Minister Hun Sen put it, “pay up or pack your things”.

 

This follows similar attacks on independent broadcasters Radio Free Asia and Voice of America, which were pulled up for their tax compliance and also saw stations broadcasting their shows shuttered.

 

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