The Minister of finance prohibits the payment of taxes in cash, as part of the execution of the 2021 finance law, one of the new flagship measures contained in the related circular, signed on December 30 by the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, concerning securing State revenue.
Minister Louis Paul Motaze prescribed the prohibition of the payment of taxes and duties in cash to the tax network and the generalization to the computerized divisional tax centres of the payment methods in force in the specialized management units, via the payment by bank transfer or electronically.
The Minister also establishes the electronic payment as a mode of compulsory payment of taxes and duties for large companies falling within the portfolio of the management of large companies. The text exceptionally authorizes the payment of taxes in cash only at bank counters. But not with the tax officials who have often fed the news in cases of embezzlement of public revenue.
In addition, the circular enshrines the issuance and notification of receipts by electronic means, with the consequent elimination of manual receipts which are sources of “various fraud”.
We also gathered that the Minister had previously issued manual receipts which are purely and simply replaced by electronic receipts. The modalities of implementation of this reform will be defined by a specific text of the Minister of Finance, indicates the circular.
It should be recalled that in 201, the Minister of Finance had to sanction no less than 137 agents of his administration. The charges against these employees revolved essentially around the production of false receipts and the embezzlement of revenue. These agents, generally deployed in public revenue collection stations, fabricated false documents attesting to the payment of collected revenue into state coffers, although these funds did not appear anywhere in the Treasury books.
