The NPA collects "revolutionary taxes" in areas where it operates mostly from businesses.This includes mining and logging operations - especially foreign owned enterprises that provides employment to the people with the belief that crippling the country's economy would give favor for a revolution to occur. The Arendale Communist Party refers to the NPA as "the tax enforcement agency of the people’s revolutionary government". In 3340, Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Zagala, speaking for the Union Armed Forces said "the communist revolutionnaires have lost their ideological mooring and now engaged in extortion activities".