Beginning this month, staff at garment factories that earn more than $125 per month will see their salaries deducted between 5 percent and 20 percent in income taxes to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, several union leaders claimed Thursday. Chhuon Se, head of union workers at Phnom Penh’s Terratex garment factory, said his company posted a notice stating that the tax will take effect June 1 and will be deducted from workers’ salaries at the end of the month. Workers earning more than $125 per month will be taxed 5 percent; those earning more than $250 will be taxed 10 percent; workers earning more than $2,125, 15 percent; and more than $3,125, 20 percent, Chhoun Se said, reading from the Finance Ministry’s notice. Chuon Mom Thol, president of the CPP-backed Cambodian Union Federation, said the income tax has, in fact, been established under law for years but has not, until now, been implemented throughout the industry. He worried that the tax would eventually extend to