Wheel barrow man jailed for not paying
taxes
By Ali Ismael Mohamed –Puntland
A
wheelbarrow owner was jailed , after he refused to pay the daily
municipal
tax.
Mohamed Bukurow, 32, was sentenced to jail yesterday by the
local tax officers after he refused to pay a tax of SH2000sh. In
his defense he said he ran away two months ago from the
persistent Southern Somalia civil war.
He
said that he can’t afford to pay tax.
He
used to deliver goods from the market to the owner’s houses.
That morning he didn’t get anything to deliver for payment and
didn’t drink even one
cup
of tea which costs 1000sh.
The
tax collectors said that they forgave the detainee twice, but
will not allow him this
time to avoid serving his prison sentence.
Asked why he always refuses to pay the daily tax, Bukurow said
that he is
“the poorest member of the community” and the tax “is illegal”
to him.