{"id":276001,"date":"2019-05-14T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vdGlncmF5LW9mLWV0aGlvcGlhLWNvbGxlY3RzLWNsb3NlLXRvLTEzMC1taWxsaW9uLXRheC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:53:47","slug":"tigray-collected-about-130-million-in-tax-over-nine-months-of-the-2018-19-ethiopian-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276001","title":{"rendered":"Tigray collected about $130 million in tax over nine months of the 2018\/19 Ethiopian fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that Tigray\u2019s regional revenue authority had collected about 3.7 billion birr, roughly $130 million, during the first nine months of the Ethiopian fiscal year that began on 8 July 2018.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-425108\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221222_191454-1.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tigray collected about $130 million in tax over nine months of the 2018\/19 Ethiopian fiscal year\" \/>\n<p>Director Asefu Lilay said the haul came from more than 180,000 taxpayers, rose about 6 percent from the same period a year earlier, and reached about 74 percent of the period target. About 11,180 of those taxpayers were in the VAT category, and the full-year target was listed as about 4.9 billion birr.<\/p>\n<p>Regional tax figures are dry on the surface, but they still matter as a dated checkpoint for how northern Ethiopia\u2019s public finances looked before later war destroyed so much of that revenue base.<\/p>\n<p>As regional finance archive, the report is a baseline for researchers who want numbers rather than slogans about Tigray\u2019s economy in the late reform years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/business\/tigray-of-ethiopia-collects-close-to-130-million-tax\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tigray of Ethiopia collects close to $130 million tax&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaTigray region of Ethiopia has collected 3.7 billion birr (about $130 million) tax during the first nine months of current Ethiopian fiscal year started July 8, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":425108,"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-276001","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\/2022\/12\/20221222_191454-1.jpg?fit=2000%2C934&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19ND","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276001","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=276001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754778,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276001\/revisions\/754778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}