{"id":397954,"date":"2020-04-15T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=397954"},"modified":"2020-04-16T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:06:16","slug":"government-announces-tax-relief-measures-to-tackle-coronavirus-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/government-announces-tax-relief-measures-to-tackle-coronavirus-disruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Government announces tax relief measures to tackle Corona virus disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(S0NNA):The Federal Government of Somalia announced tax exemptions on some of the basic commodities for the next three months to tackle the economic disruptions occasioned by the Corona-virus and prevent from the skyrocketing of prices of essential food items.<\/p>\n<p>The food items that saw tax exemption include rice and dates which received a 100% tax exemption, and flour and cooking oil which saw a 50% tax exemption. The tax exemption is effective from today, 15 April, with a view to mitigating possible food inflation during the Holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry encouraged an increase in local agricultural production to contribute to efforts to achieve economic sustainability and self-reliance.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Finance, Dr Abdirahman Du&#8217;ale Beileh said the restrictions on flight and travel movement badly affected trade thus adversely affecting the country&#8217;s economy as a decrease in revenue from revenue points such as the ports and airports has been witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(S0NNA):The Federal Government of Somalia announced tax exemptions on some of the basic commodities for the next three months to tackle the economic disruptions occasioned by the Corona-virus and prevent from the skyrocketing of prices of essential food items. The food items that saw tax exemption include rice and dates which received a 100% tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397962,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397954\/revisions\/397962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}