![Employees of a currency exchange counter count banknotes at market street in the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli on May 2, 2018. Many Kurds in Syria may dream of self-rule, but for business owners in the semi-autonomous region in the country's north, it now comes with a painful pinch: double taxes paid both to Kurdish authorities and the central government in Damascus. / AFP / Delil souleiman](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/ZB75A57WP6KEOCWS5NIY7UTEFQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=5173cf6e8c95354c429e2970a42f7d1e17e9fa022c437ddc19843fa420499d48&width=400&height=225)
Employees of a currency exchange counter count banknotes at market street in the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli. Delil souleiman / AFP
Employees of a currency exchange counter count banknotes at market street in the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli. Delil souleiman / AFP
Syrian Kurd traders suffer from twin tax systems
Business owners are paying the Kurdish administration and Damascus
Agence France Presse
22 May, 2018