Ethiopian Customs Commission (ECC) announced it has collected over 54 billion birr revenues during the last five months. The amount has shown an increase of 8.2 billion birr, 18.5 percent, compared to the same period last year.
ECC said it plans to secure a collection of 155 billion birr or more in the 2021/22 Ethiopian fiscal year that sarted on July 8.
During the previous year, the Commission had collected 112.5 billion birr, 89.5 percent of the target it set.
ECC has pointed out it has been engaged in cracking down contraband trade. During the past four months, the Commission related, its officials have seized contrabnad items worth 1.2 billion birr. Furthermore, 265.2 million birr that was to be smuggled out of the country for illicit purposes has been seized, along with 293 related arrests.
The Commission pointed out it has seized contraband items worth 7.7 billion birr during the past two and half years, and vows to cotninue its crackdown on contraband tarde in tandem with federal and regional security forces.
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Source: Ethiopian Monitor
