15/04/2015: Islamic State imposes taxes on grain trade in Syria’s Hasakah

The Islamic State group is imposing more financial taxes on cargo trucks loaded with fodder and agricultural materials entering and exiting the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, towards other regions outside the province, local dealers report.
    
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, a grain market trader said that the IS radical group recently put portable balances on the road between Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor near the city of Shaddadi (40 km south of Hasakah) where the IS members calculate the shipments and impose 11,000 Syrian Pounds per tonne on every trucker.

The source, who preferred anonymity, quoted truckers as saying: “There is news about the arrival of three IS leaders to Shaddadi, who want to raise the taxes to 20 percent per tonne or pay the same value in cash.”
 
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