polygamists may face higher tax in Rajshahi city
Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) proposed to impose higher taxes on polygamist men in the budget for 2006-07 fiscal. According to the proposal, one will have to pay the RCC Tk 10,000 for second wife, Tk 30,000 for third wife and Tk 40,000 for the fourth. Currently the tax is at Tk 1,000 for keeping a wife after the first wife, RCC sources said. Rajshahi City Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu said the fresh taxes were proposed for the 'welfare of the families'. He said the taxes are intended to discourage multiple marriages. "Multiple marriages in some cases result women repression and increase population growth," he added.
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