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Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's shadow government pressures overseas job agencies

NUG threatens to prosecute companies that tax 'remittances to benefit the junta'

Workers in Bangkok protest a Myanmar military decree that they remit at least 25% of their pay to the Myanmar banking system in September 2023.   © AP

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's shadow government is accusing employment companies of helping the military regime's funding by assisting in the collection of taxes from Myanmar workers who have fled abroad.

The National Unity Government last week announced it had designated the government-backed organization which oversees recruitment agencies that send workers overseas as "an illegal association."

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