{"id":25074,"date":"2021-07-15T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25074"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:40:19","slug":"tanzanias-patriotism-tax-on-mobile-money-transactions-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/tanzanias-patriotism-tax-on-mobile-money-transactions-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania&#8217;s &#8216;patriotism tax&#8217; on Mobile Money Transactions Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new so-called &#8220;patriotism levy&#8221; imposed on mobile money transfers in Tanzania has come into effect amid criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tax, which was approved last month by the country&#8217;s parliament, will impose additional charges every time payments are sent or received via phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania&#8217;s telecommunication companies are running adverts in the local press displaying their new charges to transfer money through mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some firms indicate that the patriotism levy has caused transaction fees to double.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania\u2019s finance ministry has defended the tax, saying the money raised will be used to fund development projects, such as providing running water in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the new fees have been widely criticised as unfairly targeting the East African nation&#8217;s poor citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new so-called &#8220;patriotism levy&#8221; imposed on mobile money transfers in Tanzania has come into effect amid criticism. The tax, which was approved last month by the country&#8217;s parliament, will impose additional charges every time payments are sent or received via phones. Tanzania&#8217;s telecommunication companies are running adverts in the local press displaying their new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25076,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25074\/revisions\/25076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}