{"id":259341,"date":"2019-01-02T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=62497abe8f5ee9b0d77bcc2cf08530dc"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:00:33","slug":"ethiopia-rakes-in-3-billion-in-taxes-in-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/259341","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia rakes in $3 billion in taxes in 5 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Revenue has announced that the country collected about 83 billion birr ($3 billion) in taxes during the last five months of 2018, from July 8th to December 7th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Like many African nations, Ethiopia\u00a0has struggled with tax collection. Political instability and the growth of illegal businesses are just some of the challenges that tax officials faced.<\/p>\n<p>However, the appointment of Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy has brought about reforms and some political stability, which has had a positive effect on the collection of tax revenue.[&#8230;.] <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopia-collects-3-billion-tax-in-five-months\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia collects $3 billion tax in five months&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaThe government of Ethiopia has collected 83 billion (close to $3 billion) in the first five months of starting July 8, 2018. The Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Revenue report &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259460,"comment_status":"closed","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-259341","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\/2019\/01\/Ethopian-Birr.jpg?fit=507%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15sV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259341","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259461,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259341\/revisions\/259461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}