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Pay up or we send in the drummers ... |
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Thursday, 21 April 2005 |
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Indian tax collectors have hit on a novel way of persuading tax cheats to cough up – drums. Indian collectors in Rajamundry, a city in Andrah Pradesh state, sent ten drummers to ten different homes and businesses in mid-March, along with a tax collector.
An official told the BBC that all other efforts to recover the tax had failed. The drummers would “beat the drums non-stop outside houses pointed out by the officials” in order to shame occupants into paying up. The Indian tax authorities say they collected 200,000 rupees ($4,600) in the first day.
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