Tax revenue contributes 51.2pc of national budget, 8.51pc of GDP

Melaku Fenta, director general of the ERCA, heads up the press conference at his office on August 12, 2010.

The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) reported collecting 35.6 billion Br from tax and non-tax revenues in the 2009/10 fiscal year, beating its target by a billion Birr and contributing 51.2pc of the national budget.