The Ministry of Revenue of Ethiopia announces collecting 18.1 billion birr (about $567 million at the current exchange rate) in December 2019.
The amount is about 23 percent more compared to the same period last year. Including the total of 109.2 billion birr (about $3.5 billion) the country collected during the first five months of this budget year, Ethiopia has collected a total of close to 127.3 billion birr in six months (July 2019 to December 2019). At the end of the year (July 7, 2020), Ethiopia is planning to collect a total of 248 billion birr tax income.
