The Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA) had acquired MVR 1.1 billion in April, the authority revealed. 

MIRA’s statistics reveal that the bulk of their income had come from Goods and Services Taxes (GST), Airport Service Charges, Business Profit Taxes (BPT), Remittance Taxes – which is collected from money transferred abroad – and tourism land rents. 

The authority had garnered MVR 658.4 million from GSTs, 92 million from Airport Service Charges, 85.7 million from BPTs, and 65 million from land rent. 

MIRA stated that its profits for April had been 26.6 percent more than the month before, and 10.4 percent more than projected.