The Taiz axis abolishes the civil authority and turns its revenues into permanent resources for the “Brotherhood Army.”
English - Sunday 11 July 2021 الساعة 08:41 am
Taiz, NewsYemen:
The leaders of the Taiz Military Axis, affiliated with the Islah Party, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, signed a report that included illegal decisions that allow them to control the financial resources of the local civil authority, plunder tax revenues and impose harsh financial royalties on citizens and merchants, during the coming period.
The minutes were signed, after a meeting held last Tuesday, headed by the commander of the axis, Major General Khaled Fadel, and in the presence of his advisor, Abdo Farhan (Salem), the military commander of the Brotherhood militia, the governor's agent Aref Jamil and the leaders of the armed formations affiliated with the axis.
The report came to confirm that the previous interference in the work of the revenue institutions and the closure of the executive offices by the wounded, was under directives from the leaders of the armed entities, to ensure that they obtain more financial resources.
According to official documents - seen by NewsYemen - the leadership of the axis implicitly acknowledged their responsibility for the chaos and attacks on state institutions in the city of Taiz. finance resource.
In this regard, the report stipulated doubling customs fees on cars and goods entering the city, raising passport issuance fees, and allocating an amount to be added to the qat tax to be supplied to the Taiz Military Axis account at the Central Bank, provided that additional percentages of the revenues of the rest of the offices are determined in favor of Axis leaders, later.
And he identified a second resource to feed the account of the leaders of the Taiz axis, by imposing “additional fees equivalent to the same legal customs duties on bicycles and vehicles and obliging the Director General of Customs to implement,” and setting up a customs point at the entrance to the city to collect this, and collecting customs fees “on oil derivatives and contraband of goods.” Cigarettes, firecrackers, and fertilizer.
He also approved re-arranging the status of the open account of the Taiz axis, in the branch of the Central Bank of Yemen, so that the disbursement from this account is carried out under the signature of each of the axis commander and head of operations only, which means canceling the powers of the governor.
It is expected that these illegal royalties will add additional burdens to the value of goods, merchandise and services, which will result in an increase in prices to be paid by the citizen only.
Passing this record would transform the resources of the local authority in Taiz into “permanent resources for the army”, which the leaders of the axis act without accountability or oversight, noting that the meeting appointed Brotherhood leader Abdo Farhan and the head of the axis operations as a monitoring committee for themselves, in order to block the road before any accountabilit
