Tax resistance sometimes also takes more violent forms. In Kilosa DC, for
instance, tax collectors avoided certain villages due to the high personal risks
involved in tax collection. Other villages were only visited by collectors
accompanied by the local militia. In 1996 the ward office in Chanzuru was
destroyed during night and the Tax Register Books were burnt. Cases of tax
revolts are also reported from councils in other regions. Daily News (28
November, 1997:5) reports that ‘[o]ver twenty Moshi Municipal Council workers
who were on a special operation to net development levy defaulters were attacked
by a mob at Mbuyuni Market on Wednesday afternoon and eight of them were
injured, some seriously, …’