After 150,000 businesses disappear, Moroccan small businesses call for a 10% tax

As the 2026 elections approach, the Moroccan Confederation of Very Small and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises is changing its approach. It no longer wants to settle for meetings with the parties, but is asking them to respond publicly and precisely to a memorandum containing thirteen demands.

Its president told Al3omk that small businesses intend to secure measurable commitments, so that they can verify their implementation after the elections. He believes that promises made to entrepreneurs during election campaigns are too often abandoned once the elections are over.

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The main tax demand concerns the introduction of a 10% corporate tax rate for very small businesses. The Confederation is also calling for the cancellation of late-payment penalties imposed on these businesses and for reform of their access to bank financing.

It also wants social contributions for newly established businesses to be adapted to their actual financial capacity, particularly during their first years of activity.

Small businesses demand their share of public contracts

The Confederation is also demanding the effective application of the 20% quota of public contracts theoretically reserved for small and medium-sized enterprises. It considers that this provision remains insufficiently applied and that very small businesses are still largely excluded from public procurement.

Another demand is the creation of an agency called “Maroc TPE”, which would be responsible for providing specific support to very small businesses, facilitating their financing and supporting their transformation. The professional organization also wants to encourage the transition of informal activities into the declared sector through incentive measures, rather than sanctions alone.

These demands come after the publication, in March, of a Confederation report entitled “The stalled engine – The 12 structural truths of Moroccan very small businesses”. In it, the organization estimated that approximately 150,000 businesses, mainly very small businesses, had ceased operations or disappeared between 2022 and 2025.

This figure therefore comes from the Confederation and does not correspond to an official count of judicial bankruptcies. Nevertheless, the organization uses it to raise the alarm about the continuing fragility of Moroccan small businesses, which face financing difficulties, payment delays and tax pressure.

The Confederation says it will not support any party and will issue no voting instructions. It does, however, intend to publish the responses received and monitor the commitments made, so that small businesses can compare the platforms before the elections and subsequently hold the elected parties accountable.