Fake products affecting taxes

PAPUA New Guineans consume low cost items every day.
PNG is becoming a haven for unethical companies importing cheap and fake brands.
This has affected our tax base.
These counterfeit manufacturers and resellers do not pay the correct import taxes.
Their low price attracts more customers.
Our annual reductions in government expenditure is caused by the fall in revenue from tax bases (legal manufacturers and distributor) in the country.
The retailers of fake products cheat the country of their needed revenue. They employ children below 18 which is illegal.
People can be directed to avoid consuming counterfeit products but cannot resist the low prices.
This country needs a product analysis team to boost the tax bases and to reduce the number of fake products manufacturers and distributors through the Independent Consumer and Competition Commission.

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