ISIS
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The NY Times provided examples of how ISIS runs this operation inside its territory:
In a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq, ISIS has transformed a police station into a market and charges vendors 2.8 million Iraqi dinars, or roughly $2,500, per year to rent a stall.
In ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, the "Office of Services" collects a "cleaning tax" of about 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7 to $14, from merchants.
ISIS also charges for utilities like water and electricity, and residents go to "collection points" to pay their bills. Those usually total about 800 Syrian pounds, or roughly $2.50, for electricity, and 400 pounds, or about $1.20, for water.
ISIS' "Office of Resources" controls the group's oil and smuggling operations, in addition to businesses like soft-drink plants, mobile-phone companies, textile and furniture workshops, and factories that produce chemicals, cement, and tiles.
ISIS also skims revenue from small businesses, demanding a cut of their profits.
ISIS charges an income tax of about 10%.
ISIS imposes fines and fees for services or infractions including car registration, college textbooks, traffic violations, and smoking.
- How capitalist of them. I can see why they hate us so much.monospaced
- So Daesh is a low tax zone?
Perhaps some American corporations might choose to set up their HQs there?detritus - 10% flat tax... a Ted Cruz wet dream!wagshaft
- I wonder if there's an abortion clinic there in that market, y'know, next to the free healthcare that comes from ISIS controlmonospaced
- ..because America has a great record on abortion clinics?detritus
- And your healthcare system's a mess from what I hear from over this side of the pond.
Stones and glass houses, and all that...detritus - no shitmonospaced
- I was being sarcastic, sorry. Joking about how ISIS might be actually running a decent society with all the things we struggle to implement. Bad joke, sorry.monospaced
- Ah, I thought you were taking my joke seriously and responding in kind.
American sarcasm's an odd fish.detritus