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Congolese Economic operators schooled on a new payment scheme

The Minister for the Budget, Ludovic Ngatsé, during a meeting on March 31 in Brazzaville, invited economic operators as well as people exercising liberal professions to now use the Single Window of Payment (GUP), to pay their taxes.

Inscribed in the 2021 finance law, the GUP is a mechanism for centralizing and securing State revenue through the banking system. This platform also turns out to be a support to the treasury, in the collection of public resources.

“The reforms that underway aim to promote and facilitate tax procedures to broaden the base. Now each taxpayer can pay at the counter with the assurance that his money will go to the public treasury, “said the Minister for the Budget.

“We are in the first quarter of GUD application. There are certain difficulties related to the preparation of the teams at the level of the Postal Bank of Congo. To do this, the Ministry of Finance has instituted a tolerance so that there is no penalty, ” he continued, before urging taxpayers to be patient because it is a new procedure that incorporates many changes.

Referring to the State’s measures to support companies in crisis, the Minister Delegate stressed that the tax burden has fallen over the past twelve months because of marginal rates revised downwards. “We want to support companies in crisis because the effort should not focus on increasing the burden of taxation on companies but rather broadening the base. “

It should be noted that reforms in favour of businesses, in particular the exemption for new businesses and the stimulus, guarantee and support fund for very small, medium-sized businesses and crafts, were recalled.

To secure State revenue, the Ministry of Finance and Budget is continuing with its series of reforms launched in 2016. These include, among others, the standardized invoicing system to better collect taxes, the dematerialized fiscal stamp for reducing fraud, GUP, etc.