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Drummers Convince People to Pay Taxes
Reuters ^
| March 11, 2005
| Reuters
Posted on 03/17/2005 6:05:20 AM PST by Loud Mime
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Tax defaulters in southern India are being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.
After many residents ignored repeated demands to settle overdue property taxes. authorities in a city in Andhra Pradesh state have sent 20 groups of drummers to play outside offenders' houses for the past week.
"They put up a spectacle outside the houses of defaulters, draw them out and explain their dues to them and the need to clear it at the earliest," said T.S.R. Anjaneyulu, municipal commissioner of Rajahmundry city.
"They don't stop until people agree to clear the dues."
The city, owed a total of 50 million rupees ($1.15 million), had been at its wits' end after sops like waiving interest and penalties had failed to recover the arrears.
The new method seems to be working, though. One week of incessant drumming has cleared 18 percent of the backlog.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drum; india; taxes
Sure 'beats' the expensive lawyers and bureaucrats
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:05:20 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
To: Loud Mime
We should outsource our entire government to India.
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:07:53 AM PST
by
Kokojmudd
(Today's Liberal is Tomorrow's Prospective Flying Saucer Abductee)
To: Loud Mime
Bernie Spooge from the band "Smegma Breath" says: "Count me in!"
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:09:06 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
If those 4 guys show up in front of my house, the only music anybody is going to hear is "Taps".
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:11:26 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Izzy Dunne
I think Carl Palmer is the best....but the point may be to find a drummer who is annoying, not good...
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:13:39 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Liberals want good things to happen - - - to the right people)
To: Lockbar
Elmer Blattz, from the band "WhizPop BangRattle", says, "I could do this"
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:16:00 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Loud Mime
Carl Palmer is great. I saw him with his short lived band THREE, years ago! Even though ELP is fantastic, I still enjoyed his work with ASIA the most.
To: FreeManWhoCan
The first concert I ever saw was ELP in Frankfurt, Germany. We were early, and one of the crew let us sit in early and we watched CP set up his drum set.....
I won't tell you what we gave the guy to let us in, but the music sounded SO good and later I got really hungry
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posted on
03/17/2005 6:57:20 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Liberals want good things to happen - - - to the right people)
To: Loud Mime
Never underestimate the power of shame.
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posted on
03/17/2005 7:16:49 AM PST
by
Jibaholic
(The facts of life are conservative - Margaret Thatcher)
To: Jibaholic
....add that to your neighbors complaining about the noise..
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posted on
03/17/2005 7:38:10 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Liberals want good things to happen - - - to the right people)
To: Loud Mime
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Tax defaulters in southern India are being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up. Pariah is Tamil for "drummer"
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posted on
03/17/2005 2:01:54 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Conservatives wish to preserve existing evils. Liberals want to replace them with new ones)
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