Dar es Salaam — It is official: mobile phones are now leading generators of excise tax, overtaking beer.
A National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report shows that since 2004/05 beer was the largest contributor of revenue from excise but things changed in 2013/14 when mobile phones took the lead.
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