“I urge you to stay the course and be more selfless in order to enable our country to meet the expectations of the people and to respect its various commitments, particularly with donors.”

It is in these words that Ouattara Sié, Director General of Taxes, encouraged, on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 in Abidjan, all of his employees to take up the challenge of mobilizing 2748 billion FCFA for the 2021 financial year.
Adding to the passage that “it is not in this way and only in this way that we will be able to exempt our country from external aid, from begging that does not say its name.”
In 2020, 2352 billion FCFA were collected, out of a target of 2295 billion FCFA, despite the difficult context of the coronavirus pandemic, the socio-political unrest linked to the presidential elections and the low return on certain taxes, including VAT and property taxes.
A positive result of more than 50 billion FCFA for a production rate of 102%. In comparison with 2019, the Directorate General of Taxes had mobilized 2302 billion FCFA.
For Ouattara Sié Abou, these results, which are constantly increasing, are the result of all departments and all tax agents. Agents to whom he extends his congratulations. Before inviting them to make the total digitization of tax procedures effective and to continuously seek to broaden the tax base so as not to depend on a limited number of taxpayers.
LAWANI