The Directorate-General for Taxation informs, during a session to raise awareness of tax citizenship, that Côte d'Ivoire has a tax pressure rate below the norm in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) area.

" The rate of tax pressure in Côte d'Ivoire is 12.5%, while the WAEMU standard is 20% ," said Diallo Nabo Séraphin, deputy director of the promotion of tax citizenship. While hosting an awareness session on tax citizenship, he asked taxpayers to avoid setting tax rates and consider only the contribution of tax to economic development and social welfare. The rate of the tax burden is defined as the average of all its taxes in relation to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country concerned.