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Taxing fun with cell phones

Mary Ann O'Donnell at Shenzhen Noted introduces a government SMS contest in Shenzhen: One of the events being promoted by the Shenzhen Bureau of Taxation is citizen participation in the 3rd National Tax Collection Text Message Publicity Contest... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Thu, May 07 2009

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