37 Enterprise Management In exchange the leader undertook costs and responsibilties for repair work in the market compound. Thiri (potter, Nay Pyi Taw) worked from home but when she was young, her parents had a pottery shop in the market and paid a tax of MMK 300 per month ($0.3). Nyein (Ice-cream seller, Mawlamyine) paid a tax of MMK 200 ($0.2) to Mawlamyine City Development Committee everyday and MMK 3500 ($3.5) per month to the school authorities for selling outside the school. Than (fish monger, Bago) sold fish at the fish market and paid a daily tax of MMK 200 ($0.2) to the market leader. MEs who sold outside the market paid bribe or were asked to pay bribe to the local authorities (Quarter leader/Ward leader/ Municipal Corporation staff) to avoid being caught because they did not have a business registration and were getting raw materials illegally from the surroundings or were involved in some illegal business. Some of the MEs who got bamboo from the mountains had to pay a fine to the Municipal Corporation if they caught them as was seen in the case of Moe (bamboo chair maker, Nay Pyi Taw) and Thuza (bamboo mat maker, Nay Pyi Taw) were caught cutting bamboo from the forest and MC took in possession of their bicycles and asked them to pay penalty. Myint (toddy juice seller, Mawlamyine) paid MMK 10,000 ($10) per year to police since it had alcohol so selling toddy juice was illegal. There were some MEs who mentioned paying tax to MC once for not having business registration but after that MC officials never turned up. This was very much evident in the case of Phyu (tailor, Nay Pyi Taw) who had a shop on the main road and paid some amount to the Municipal Corporation staff when she had just opened her shop and did not have a business registration and Tun (Hawker, Nay Pyi Taw) who had to pay MMK 1500 ($1.5) to the Municipal Corporation for selling without any business registration at the bus station once. Market leader collecting market tax in Bago 3.6.3 GARBAGE TAX There was a fixed garbage tax which MEs paid daily for work locations and once in three months for their houses, shared Kyaw (keychain maker, Bago). He paid MMK 5000 kyats ($5) for garbage as his work produced a lot of wood shavings while Than (fish monger, Bago) paid a daily tax of MMK 100 ($0.1) to the garbage picker. YCDC staff collecting garbage from the streets of Yangon