Bribery in Afghanistan Bigger Than Taxes

                            

KABUL, KOMPAS.com - A UN report on corruption in Afghanistan shows, the country's population paid bribes two times greater than the amount of income tax in the country last year.

report compiled by Anti-Corruption Unit of the United Nations and Afghanistan shows, the amount of bribes paid last year increased rapidly and reached 3.9 billion U.S. dollars.

"With public sector corruption means not getting the best, but it gets the parties have the best connections or those with a higher income, "said the UN envoy Jean-Luc Lemahieu a press conference in Kabul, on Thursday (02/27/2013).

According to the report, the total number of bribery in Afghanistan last year increased by 40 percent over a period of three the previous year to 3.9 billion dollars.

Residents receive

figure, said Lemahieu, two times greater than the amount of revenue received by the government to provide public services.

He added, many poor people can not afford to pay bribes so that they do not have access to public services or are unable to compete for jobs in government offices.

About half the population of Afghanistan to bribe government officials to get public services. Data obtained from interviews last year of 6700 adults in a number of areas.

The study also revealed that more and more people accept corruption.

Nearly 70 percent of people surveyed said, it is unacceptable for a public servant to accept bribes in order to increase revenue.