Controversial plans to reform the national income tax brought down the last government three months ago, and it's still a "tough sell" to the public, government officials are finding. In Town Hall meetings, government ministers have met tough questions, ridicule, frustration and all-out anger from citizens. Citizens raged at one town hall that they should not "pay the price" of officials' mismanagement of the nation's debt. Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said, "it is not easy to sell the law to the public" when he unveiled the draft law, which the government hopes will cut the nation's high debt level. Some citizens are angered that, in coming years, the draft law severely lowers the income level at which residents are exempt from taxation.
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