Born from recommendations adopted on June 25, 2026, during a roundtable with parliamentarians from the APNIFFT network, the roadmap submitted to authorities revolves around an operational triptych. The interconnection of the Customs taxpayer file with those of the General Directorate of Taxes, the National Social Security Fund, and the Single Window for Foreign Trade constitutes the flagship measure aimed at establishing a unified national registry.

To neutralize shell companies concealing true beneficial owners, collaboration extends to the National Register of Beneficial Owners, jointly fed with the National Financial Investigation Agency. Founded on April 22, 1996, and affiliated with the Tax Justice Network Africa, this non-governmental organization thus puts its expertise at the service of budgetary sovereignty, prioritizing the extractive industry and the timber sector, whose losses due to tax evasion amount to billions of CFA francs annually.


Thanks to this strengthened audit of cross-border operations, the customs administration aims to assess the technical feasibility of reforms to secure the collection of port duties. The implementation of these interoperability mechanisms will provide control services with the necessary levers to optimize public revenue recovery.


Ndjomo Carlos

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