Kuwaiti Citizens Demonstrate Near Sheraton Hotel Kuwait City
So screams the headline from the 23 July issue of AlWatan. A most scary development.
According to the article, the Ministry of Finance is preparing a public awareness campaign under the slogan "Tax the Permanent Source of Development" as well as that the Ministry had sent some of its staff to Egypt to learn methods for fighting tax evasion as part of a plan to introduce a comprehensive tax plan including an income tax.
Can it be too much longer before حزب حفلات الشي eclipses the salafist bloc in the Majlis al Umma?
Can the local versions of سارا بالين and جلن باك be far behind?
Though knowing Kuwait, this may turn out to be like electricity. At the end of the day citizens will delay paying their taxes until the government bails them out.
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Lol...
God bless the tea party and the hours of amusement it provides me with....
I don't know how serious the gov't is in this endeavor, it does make sense though, i mean the country doesn't really make money off of anything but the oil, so another source of income is sorely needed...
although, as a Kuwaiti working in the private sector, I hate the idea of paying taxes which may ultimately be used to pay the salaries of the grossly over-employed public sector... :/
TRC
Taxes are probably a necessary evil. Imposition of which will test the Beblawi/Luciana thesis.
As to value for your putative tax dollars, there's the Majlis Al Umma to consider.
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