The Houthi militia imposed heavy taxes on water and soft drink factories to limit their competition with factories affiliated with its leaders, which were recently established within the framework of creating a parallel economy.

Local sources said that the Houthis imposed heavy taxes on water and soft drink factories to limit their competition with their affiliated factories, especially in the field of water bottling, for which four factories affiliated with the Houthi leaders were established.

The sources added that the Houthis are trying to control the market, which prompted the Association of Mineral Water, Juice and Soft Drinks Factories in Sanaa to stop work in all factories to stop its arbitrary decisions and procedures, release tax numbers and allow the passage of locomotives of raw materials necessary to operate the factories.

The association denounced in a statement the arbitrary decisions and practices taken by the Tax Authority and the Customs Authority of the Houthi militia authority, embodied in stopping tax numbers and seizing locomotives at customs ports loaded with the necessary raw materials necessary to operate factories without any legal justification.

The association indicated that the country is experiencing an economic recession and that most factories were unable to pay the salaries of their employees, considering the Houthi militia’s attempt to impose fees without any legal justification “in violation of the constitutional principle” that “there is no fine or fees except by an explicit legal text.”< /p>

The Association renewed its categorical rejection of these arbitrary decisions and practices in its entirety, unless the results will be catastrophic, which will cause severe damage to national industries and the national economy as a whole, and their continuation will lead to a decline in investments, the flight of capital abroad, and the abort of any practices that the state will take to encourage national industries.