The government’s tax effort climbed in the first half of 2018 from a year earlier on the back of a double-digit expansion in tax revenue, the Finance department reported over the weekend.

Tax collections as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) rose to 15.23 percent in the first six months of 2018 from 14.22 percent, it said in an economic bulletin.

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