Morocco Cracks Down on Tax-Evading Social Media Influencers

To track YouTubers, Instagrammers, TikTokers and other influencers who generate a lot of money, but do not declare it, the tax department has set up a system for monitoring the lifestyle of taxpayers and comparing it with the declared income, reports Assabah, specifying that this instrument allows it to identify underreporting.

In this fight, the DGI benefits from the collaboration of several institutions, including the Land Registry, which provides it with information on the targeted taxpayers on social networks.

In a methodological approach, the department recently invited the owners of channels on social networks to file their tax returns on income tax and value added tax, the newspaper indicates. Teams would also be at work to estimate the income and declarations made by certain influencers.

According to the figures, the income of some of them exceeds 100,000 dirhams per month, which is equivalent to an annual income of around 1.2 million dirhams. However, half of the influencers do not declare any income. As for those who do, their declaration is zero.