Pakistan Hires Transgender Workers to Shame Tax Delinquents

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Pakistan Hires Transgender Workers to Shame Tax Delinquents
By ADAM B. ELLICK

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/pakistan-hires-transgender-workers-to-shame-tax-delinquents/

KARACHI, Pakistan — In one of Karachi's most posh neighborhoods, only half of the 500,000 residents paid their property, maintenance and water taxes last year.

As a result, the Clifton Cantonment board, like Pakistan itself, is in serious financial trouble.

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In a bid for a solution — and some publicity — the Clifton board borrowed a creative idea that alleviated tax woes in neighboring India: It hired a team of transgender tax collectors to go door-to-door to embarrass the rich until they pay.