Vehicle tax and post office hassle
Your article under the above heading (DS July 23, 2008) deserves thanks from those who go through untold sufferings in the post offices every year while depositing vehicle related taxes. Perhaps, you will now consider doing an investigative report on what goes on at BRTA where owners have to produce their vehicles for the final report - that is, the Fitness Certificate.
However, your reporter failed to mention one very important issue: the post office authorities are cheating the taxpayers by collecting Tk.45.00 per car per year for the last several years in the name of issuing Tax Token (a sticker to be pasted on the front window for easy verification) but not issuing it. Instead, they issue a flimsy slip of paper with a rubber stamp saying that "label shorboraho kora hoi nai" (Label not supplied). If asked, the explanation is that their head office did not supply the label. Then why charge the fees? They have no answer. This is going on for years!!
Now, Tk.45 multiplied by number of tax paying vehicles plying in Bangladesh should give an idea how vehicle tax payers are being fleeced by the post office authorities every year for the services not rendered!
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