Hun Manet Backs Down On Tax, but He Cannot Deny a Hike Is Coming

We Know Microfinance Harms Cambodia’s Poor. What Can Be Done About It?

Advertisement Was this Hun Manet’s first gaffe since taking over Cambodia’s prime minister in August? A few weeks ago, the head of the taxation department, Kong Vibol, spoke about the imposition of a new 20 percent tax on capital gains (from 2024) and increased enforcement of existing levies, amid reports that revenue collection in the … Read more

Cambodia’s Opposition Movement Needs To Start Anew. Taxation and Eco-Nationalism Should Drive It.

Cambodia’s Opposition Movement Needs To Start Anew. Taxation and Eco-Nationalism Should Drive It.

Advertisement Since the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) took power in 1979, it has seen off at least four opposition movements. By the late 1990s, it had finished off the remnants of the ousted Khmer Rouge, the last of Cambodia’s far-left revolutionaries. The anti-communist nationalism that coalesced around Son Sann and the Khmer People’s National Liberation … Read more