The Kokang Confederates have finally begun to collect taxes! After the liberation of the Kokang area on January 5, there was no business tax or other taxes on merchants, but taxes will start on April 1. Peng Deren
That is to say, today, March 1, you can also be tax-free for one month, and then start to collect taxes, so the meaning of this document is very simple, that is, let all merchants hurry up to sell the goods in March to avoid the tax that began in April.
To be honest, the Kokang Allied Army, which only began to collect taxes three months after occupying the new territory, has done its best to the fullest, which is much stronger than the Kachin Army and the Northern Shan State Army, which collected taxes without occupying territory. Armed in other places, directly conscripted and taxed, if you don't pay, you will arrest people, and use money to ransom people, otherwise you will be detained until you starve to death, which is not much different from bandits.
If the Kokang Alliance wants to develop, it must have sufficient military spending, and a large part of military revenue is tax revenue. Just like our country, military spending is taxes, tobacco taxes, oil taxes, etc., etc., in order to operate the whole country normally, and the same is true for the Kokang Army, which can only have military spending and raise troops by taxation, and without taxes, there is no ability to develop.
As far as the Kokang Allied Army is concerned, 14 years of guerrilla warfare have been extremely difficult, a bit like the meaning of the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance, although it was difficult, but it finally survived! Now that we have a vast territory, there is no reason why we can't hold on.