The Bhutanese Leading the way.
The High Level Committee report of 2003 brought to the forefront 45 cases involving influential people and hundreds of acres of grabbed land in Thimphu. However, an investigation by The Bhutanese has shown that no serious action has been taken against the land officials, Dzongdas and Drangpons involved. This paper …
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National Land Commission (NLC) is in the process of revising the land tax rates in both rural and urban areas with the aim of generating revenue, preventing speculation over land, and also concentration of land holdings in a few hands. The rates are yet to be finalized and will have …
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