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Andy Wong / AP
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei shows his tax guarantee slips as he leaves the the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau on Wednesday.
AP reports:
BEIJING — Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says he feels like he has paid a ransom, after depositing $1.3 million into a government account in a bid to contest tax authorities' claim his company owes $2.4 million.
He deposited the guarantee late Tuesday so that he could challenge the bill levied against his company. They now have 60 days to submit an appeal against the tax assessment — which Ai's supporters have called an attempt to silence a high-profile government critic. Read the full story here.
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Here in this country, it once was "No taxation, without equal representation." Are all of the Chineese equally taxed, and equally represented? Has Mao-land really moved forward? Are they not still communists, where they take everything that you make, and just give back enough to keep you clothed, and fed, and housed? Have they purchaced so many of our US dollars, that they now use them as their own currency?