Ethio Telecom, Ministry of Revenue sign agreement to collect tax payments via Telebirr  

Addis Ababa February 2, 2023 (FBC) – Advancing its journey towards realizing the digital Ethiopia, Ethio Telecom has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Ministry of Revenues on Thursday to enable its customers pay taxes using telebirr digital payment system.

The partnership agreement signed between the two institutions would assist the Ministry of Revenues to collect income taxes, private pension fees and federal tax payments timely via Telebirr App or USSD (*127#) and meeting the ever growing demands of its customers by creating an alternative and convenient service payment platform.

CEO of Ethio Telecom, Firehiwot Tamru said  the company has set up a room for merchants who make transaction through telebirr to directly pay their taxes from the money collected from the transactions.

In addition to this, the telebirr digital payment platform would play paramount roles for customers/ tax payers of the Ministry of Revenues as it helps them to get clearance and receipt upon real time payment, allows them partial payment and transfer overdue payments and avoids penalty due to delay in updating the taxpayers’ information on Ministry of revenues’ server, Firehiwot added.

“Beyond its being an alternative payment platform, telebirr is integrated with 18 banks enabling customers to easily transfer money to their telebirr accounts and settle payments as well as its time saving, accuracy, the systems’ synchronization and availability of the service in five language options make telebirr ideal digital payment platform.”