For a long time, much of this debt went uncollected and accumulated, as most Hereros had no means to pay.
As a result, it found that 5 to 10 percent of royalties - some $650 million in 1981 - were going uncollected.
Why should you pay your fair share when the agency lets a few hundred billion dollars of other people's money go uncollected every year?
With only three sanitation trucks in service, garbage often goes uncollected.
Because of these and other violent attacks, the tax went uncollected in 1791 and early 1792.
At the same time, nearly half of the announced fines still go uncollected.
The entrepreneurs maintain they are serving science by locating remains that would otherwise go uncollected.
Only about 2 percent of loads go uncollected during a normal week, compared with more than 5 percent in 1983.
The amount going uncollected has been growing in recent years because of the recession in real estate, he said.
Now giant piles of trash go uncollected in the median.