Concerning devices that have not responded to regularization notices or have been activated collectively, the initiative revives the mechanism provided for in the 2023 Finance Law, three months after telephone operators raised technical feasibility concerns regarding filtering by international identifier.

Invisible in ordinary recovery circuits, clandestine import flows drain the State's tax base. Eroded by smuggling, financial revenues from the importation of digital equipment have fallen below 100 million FCFA per month, in stark contrast to the complete absence of the 2 billion FCFA monthly collections recorded at the beginning of the 2000s. To cope with a local market absorbing annually 4 million units, the tax administration relies on the centralized digital taxation platform to raise annual collection to 25 billion FCFA.

Consolidated by a renewed technical dialogue between the General Directorate of Customs and telecommunications operators, digital taxation will now be imposed on every new user upon SIM card insertion. Specifically, the normalization of import flows will ensure healthy competition in the telecommunications market while replenishing public coffers.

At the end of the cleansing process, the success of the mechanism will depend on the rigor applied by concessionaires in processing post-payment unblocking requests. Furthermore, the eradication of networks involved in the usurpation of unique identifiers will condition the sustainability of the expected fiscal revenues by the Public Treasury.


Nlend Flore

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