In one of Karachi\u2019s most posh neighborhoods, only half of the 500,000 residents paid their property, maintenance and water taxes last year.<\/p>\n
As a result, the Clifton Cantonment board, like Pakistan itself, is in serious financial trouble.<\/p>\n
Fewer than a million out of 170 million Pakistanis voluntarily filed income tax returns last year. The rate is among the lowest in the world.<\/p>\n
In a bid for a solution \u2014 and some publicity \u2014 the Clifton board borrowed a creative idea that alleviated tax woes in neighboring India: It hired a team of transgendered tax collectors to go door to door to embarrass the rich until they pay. Watch video here.<\/a><\/p>\n More on how Pakistani Taxes Widen Divide Between Rich and Poor here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In one of Karachi\u2019s most posh neighborhoods, only half of the 500,000 residents paid their property, maintenance and water taxes last year. As a result, the Clifton Cantonment board, like Pakistan itself, is in serious financial trouble. Fewer than a million out of 170 million Pakistanis voluntarily filed income tax returns last year. The rate … Continue reading Pakistan Hires Transgender Workers to Shame Tax Delinquents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}