Ethiopia: ERCA Claims Br3.5 Million in Unpaid Tax On Film Camera

The customs authority is preparing to take Tewodros Teshome, of Sebastopol Cinema, to court over the next two weeks. This comes after allegations of tax cheating, which could have saved him over a million Birr, when he imported an expensive Red One camera and allegedly passed it off as the cheaper Scarlet version.

Officers of the Ethiopian Revenue & Customs Authority (ERCA) raided the Lulu Guest House, around Meskel Flower on Ethio China Street, on July 6, 2014, and took possession of the equipment following a tip off from an informant, long after Tewodros claimed that he had repatriated the equipment. The seized equipment included the camera and accessories in four large bags and one smaller bag, as well as a tripod, lighting equipment and a camera stand that could be fitted onto vehicles.

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