A report published by the UN Panel of Experts revealed that Houthi militias have collected more than 270 billion rials during the truce in Yemen from oil, taxes, and other levies, an amount sufficient to pay the salaries of public service employees in the militia-controlled areas for 10 months.
“The Houthis continue to control legal and illegal sources of revenue, namely customs, taxes, zakat, non-tax revenues and illicit fees,” the Panel said in a report addressed to the President of the Security Council, adding that the militias have levied a one-fifth tax on many economic activities, including in the mineral, hydrocarbon, water and fishery sectors.
