In Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, authorities are using transgender tax collectors whose weapons include flamboyancy, surprise and a little lipstick.
In a move that speaks volumes about the lengths to which Pakistan is going to tackle tax evasion, officials are using this team of enforcers with a difference. They are sent to the businesses or houses of debtors. The aim in this conservative Muslim society is to embarrass tax debtors into paying up.
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Their job is quite simple: each morning they turn up to work and get a list of missed payments. One by one, they make house-calls, causing trouble at each debtor's home or office, trying to get them to pay up.
It's not clear how effective this tactic is, but officials insist they would not do it if it did not work. "Their appearance causes great embarrassment amongst the people," said tax superintendent Sajid Hussein Bhatti.
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