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363-06221 to 363-06226.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-06221 to 363-06226
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Title
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Article about Việt Cộng administered taxes
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Description
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Original title: "taxes", Article draft about the Việt Cộng's taxation program and its effects on the South Vietnamese government, for the Christian Science Monitor
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AI Usage Disclosure
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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JANUARY 16-
SAIGON Viet Cong financial cadre have reportedly told
their taxpayers "this is the last year you'll have to pay taxes to us.
you can pay your taxes to the coalition government
"Next year,
in Saigon."
The Viet Cong tax collectors, who also serve in
agitation and propaganda activities, did not specify whether the
"coalition government" would be set up through a negotiated settlement
or through bigger battles favorable to the Communist side.
(More Reuter)
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taxes 2 (normass/deepe)
However, their overt propaganda offensive withing the
government-controlled zones and contested areas appeared to be in step
x with widespread international discussion about peace talks which
might result in a "coalition government" of some sort.
Non-Comm The Vigt Cong tax collecters collectors also invited their
taxpayers to visit their "liberated areas" during the upcoming their
upcoming seven-day lunar new year truce and took my pains to explain
about the much-discussed 14-point program issued in September, outlining
their political posture in the South.
The Communist cadre evidently believed yh the businessmen,
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are not necessarily their supporters, wouldbe be happy to hear the war
would be settled one way or another; instead,
who
the news sent the taxpayers
of either bigger fighting or a "coalition government"
the non-Communist mercantile set into undiluted panic.
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The Vietnamese taxpayers indbindin
Om related this
report after paying their 1967 annual taxes to the Viet Cong.
These taxpayers, including ind included factory owners in Cholon,
the Chinese populated twin-city of Saigon, rubber plantation owners
in the provinces and other businessmen. These sources said the Viet Cong
were collecting taxes at approximately the same rate as last year-
but they y scened to be emphasizing collections at an earlier date.
In previous years, Viet Cong tax collections, widespread throughout
Vietnam including the cities, wore made in January and February;
but the collections for 1967 are being made in the first two weeks
of January. The souseds said this would presumably give the Viet Cong
a face-to-face propaganda benefits before the
more DAN
tradit
ditionally
lunar new year beginning January 30-a time when Vietnamese of visit
Roach other in irrespective of frontle frontlines and political
considerations.
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taxes 4 (normass/deepe)
The sources said the Viet Cong a collectors gave the
impression they were confident of their predictions of a "coalition
government" next year. They also gave the impression the Viet Cong
maintained a formidable "shadow government" in South Vietnam and that
their organization had plenty of money.
Government intelligence sources also have reported
the Viet Cong seemed to have plenty of currency, and they are suspected
of getting generous gifts of both South Vietnamese piastres and hard
foreign currency from Communist bloc countries as part of
a foret foreign aid program.
Government sources also suspect
the Viet Cong are setting up their own businesses on the outskirts of
Saigon and, in other oases, are supplying large percentages of capital
for non-Communist businessmen to establish lucrative businessm businesses.
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Businessmen in the Saigon area reported their annual Viet Cong
texos for 1967 were roughly ten per cent of their net profits-about the
as the taxes for 1966; this tax level is lower than in the countryside,
presumably because the Viet Cong are attempting to woo the urban dwellers,
as well as culling economic intelligence on Vietnamese government and
American activities and plans.
In the countryside,
the annual tax rate for 1967 was
reported to bo forty per cent of the net profit of the business enterprise.
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The annual Viet Cong's annual tax is only one of a multitudes
that Vietnamese pay throughout the year; there is also a monthly tax,
the names
ev generally paid the first fifteen days of each month;
of those not-paying refusing the pay are turned over to Viet Cong
assassination squads during the last fifteen days each month, reliable
sources report. Transportation taxes along even major roads, canals
and some rivers are also in collected throughout
the year.
The Viet Cong maintain a highly personalized Internal
Revenue Service of sorts, with a Communist man, woman or youngster
calling at the home/of the taxpayer and personally checking the
accounting.iuxmam
(and Reuter)
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Date
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1968, Jan. 16
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Taxation; Budget deficits; Underpayment of taxes; War tax resistance
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B11, F4
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
