General Tax Directorate

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• Moroccan Real Estate Developers Under Investigation for Undeclared Foreign Currency Payments
  14 April, by Prince

  Real estate developers are accused of not declaring significant sums received from Moroccans Residing Abroad (MRE) for the purchase of apartments in Morocco.
  Developers have required MREs to pay part of the agreed amount in foreign currencies, particularly in euros, and the rest in Moroccan dirhams, reports Hespress. Subsequently, these developers failed to declare these sums to the authorities, which aroused suspicions from the control services of the Exchange Office, who opened in-depth (…)

• Morocco Launches Online Vehicle Registration Fee Payment for Dealers
  5 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  A new tele-service will soon be operational for the payment of registration fees. This initiative comes from the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) and will allow vehicle dealers to pay registration fees through an electronic process.
  An end to hassles for vehicle dealers. The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI), aware of their difficulties in paying these fees, has decided to change the situation.
  Thanks to the process of digitization and improvement of online tax services, "SIMPL", (…)

• Morocco Offers Tax Amnesty to Real Estate Developers in New Agreement
  7 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) and the Federation of Real Estate Developers have just signed an agreement. This will allow real estate developers to regularize their tax situation through a spontaneous liberating settlement of an amount varying according to the turnover excluding taxes.
  The flat-rate tax is between 1 and 2.5% depending on the turnover, specifies L’Economiste. Subscribing to a corrective declaration before December 31, 2019 for the four unbarred fiscal years is the (…)

• Morocco Launches Tax Amnesty Program, Sets September 30 Deadline
  26 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The tax amnesty has entered its operational phase. The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) has disseminated all the forms dedicated to its subscription.
  Request for the statement of irregularities in the possession of the administration, corrective declaration, payment slip. These are the three administrative documents that taxpayers wishing to subscribe to the tax amnesty must complete. Subscriptions can be made until September 30 next, specifies L’Économiste. After this deadline, (…)

• Architects Embrace Tax Amnesty Deal as DGI Expands Professional Outreach
  29 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) has signed an agreement with the Order of Architects. In total, 1,400 professionals out of 3,500 have joined the tax amnesty.
  This is the second professional organization with which the DGI has just entered into a partnership after the doctors. According to L’Économiste, the DGI intends to sign an agreement with professional organizations to allow for massive and more effective regularizations than case-by-case negotiations. The transporters would be (…)

• Morocco Tightens Vehicle Tax Enforcement: New Law Targets Used Car Sales
  19 October 2020, by Ginette

  Used car buyers must be vigilant from January 1, 2021. The government has just given itself a formidable weapon contained in the 2021 finance bill, to hinder fraudsters.
  As of January 1, 2021, the sale of vehicles can only be carried out if the annual special tax on motor vehicles (TSAVA), called the sticker, has been fully paid. This is what the 2021 Finance Act provides for, which through this mechanism, intends to fight tax evasion and above all to mitigate the conflicts related to the (…)

• Morocco Suspends Electronic Invoicing Rollout After Merchant Protests
  16 January 2019, by Said

  All measures relating to the implementation of electronic invoicing have just been suspended following an agreement signed yesterday by the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) and the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII).
  "This meeting took place in a framework of frankness, responsibility and clarity, and was characterized by a serious and constructive debate around the new tax measures relating to electronic invoicing and the requirement of the common company identifier (ICE) (…)

• Morocco to Impose Tax on Tech Giants Google, Facebook, and GAFA Companies
  12 May 2019, by Said

  The internet giants will also have to pay up in Morocco, where a tax on profits made in the kingdom by the GAFA (Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon) is planned to be applied.
  The announcement was made by government spokesman Mustapha El Khalfi, according to whom "the digital giants are reaping huge profits from the Moroccan market through advertising but without paying taxes, which undermines fair competition between national companies and the GAFA."
  For his part, the Ministry of (…)

• Moroccan Tax Authorities Target High-Earning Social Media Influencers
  25 March 2021, by Ginette

  Moroccan influencers have started flaunting their wealth on social media, piquing the curiosity of tax officials who reveal that they have evidence "that most of these influencers prefer to be paid in cash to avoid having a trace of their financial transactions," reports Hespress.
  Some influencers can "receive millions of dirhams," since they "do not declare their annual income." The Directorate of Taxes has decided to put an end to "the anarchy on social networks" by legally dissecting (…)

• Morocco Clarifies: Expats Not Required to Declare Moroccan Bank Accounts Abroad
  25 March 2021, by Prince

  In a statement published on Wednesday, the DGI denied these false information published on social media, which state that MREs are required to declare their bank accounts in Morocco to the tax authorities of their country of residence as of 2021. According to these media, the multilateral convention on tax treaties BEPS signed in June 2019 by Morocco would provide for an automatic exchange of information between the signatory countries.
  However, the automatic exchange of information is not (…)