The 2022
Performance Review Session of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) took place
yesterday, on Monday, February 6th 2023, at the Heden Golf hotel in
Abidjan-Cocody in the presence of the Director of the Minister of Budget and
State-owned Entities’ Cabinet, Adama Sall. According to the Director General of
Taxes, Ouattara Sie Abou, from an overall revenue target of 3,264.9 billion CFA
francs assigned to his department for Year 2022, achievements recorded amount
to 3,205.7 billion CFA francs, which represents a rate of achievement of 98.2%.
Compared to Year
2021 Gross Results which amounted to 2,849.3 billion CFA francs, he indicated the
revenue is up 356.3 CFA francs, which represents a net growth rate of 12.5%. With
these results, the Director General of Taxes motivated his team. For him, these
results are the fruit of the efforts of all services involved and the support
of its affiliate. "In view of the internal factors that have weakened our
performance somewhat, we must, of course, continue our efforts to digitize our
procedures, but also ensure that we can evolve seamlessly and serenely in a
fully controlled and secure information system, He was pleased to note that the
weakness in the yield of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and the tax on salary
processing, and the lack of control over the management of arrears resulting
from the transfer of taxpayers, have weakened the smooth functioning of tax
collection at certain times.
Despite these
difficulties, the Director General of taxes is confident that the revenue
targets set for the DGT for 2023 will be met. To do so, many strategic means
have been put in place that will enable the Department to improve its
performance. For Adama Sall, the Director of the Minister of Budget and State-owned
Entities’s Cabinet, this progress is still insufficient in view of the many
development challenges that Côte d'Ivoire must take up for the well-being of
its people. "The increase in tax revenue is an imperative for our country
if we want to improve our macroeconomic indicators, including the rate of tax
pressure, the poverty rate and more globally, the rate of economic
growth," he said.
In the meantime,
Mr. Sall invited the DGT to take strong measures that will significantly
improve the level of tax revenue, or even the tax pressure rate which is
currently below the community standard. The cabinet director asked the DGT’s
officials to take advantage of this seminar to seek the causes of the
non-attainment of the assigned objectives. "Both internal and exogenous
factors must be reviewed, including the modeling analysis of the setting of
annual targets and their distribution by service," he said. It should be
noted that the revenue forecast for Year 2023 is 3,697.3 billion CFA francs.
This is an increase of 491.6 billion CFA francs, or 15.3% compared to 2022
achievements.
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