{"id":257738,"date":"2018-12-22T00:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=257738"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:32:38","slug":"pm-abiy-ahmed-talks-about-the-need-for-everyone-to-pay-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/257738","title":{"rendered":"PM Abiy Ahmed talks about the need for everyone to pay taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fXpNsmY4CI<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Ministry of Revenues started the national income mobilization campaign today graced with Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s presence at the African Union Headquarters. The forum opened with the motto \u201cI will carry out my duty; I will demand my right\u201d. It was made public that Ethiopia only collected 176 billion Birr from the planned 260 billion Birr in the year 2017\/2018. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed said, \u201cA person who cheats taxes shouldn\u2019t be seen as smart, rather as a fool who hates his country and isn\u2019t concerned about the future of his children\u201d. In addition, Dr. Abiy emphasized on the importance of tax revenues as it holds a major share in the country\u2019s development. He also urged people to change their wronged perceptions about tax<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nSubscribe to Mereja TV&#8217;s Youtube Channel: https:\/\/goo.gl\/jT1CDS<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news and information about #Ethiopia and Ethiopians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fXpNsmY4CI Ethiopian Ministry of Revenues started the national income mobilization campaign today graced with Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s presence at the African Union Headquarters. The forum opened with the motto \u201cI will carry out my duty; I will demand my right\u201d. It was made public that Ethiopia only collected 176 billion Birr from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":257739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/abiyu.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1534","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257741,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257738\/revisions\/257741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}