Morocco Expands Self-Employment Rights, Raising Income Limits for 80,000 Workers

It is specifically a modification of the existing law so that the self-employed worker can employ labor. But this can only be possible by increasing the ceiling of transactions provided for by the law relating to the status of the self-employed worker, said the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri.

In front of the deputies, Sekkouri indicated that nearly 80,000 self-employed workers declared their status during the months of October and November and 30,000 of them have already paid their taxes.

"The number of self-employed workers in Morocco is 320,000, while the number of people declared as self-employed during the term of the outgoing government represented only 15 to 20% of this figure," he detailed.

And he added that "the first thing the current government did was to include self-employed workers in the royal project to generalize social coverage".

In Morocco, any natural person exercising, individually, an industrial, commercial or craft activity, or a service provider, whose annual turnover collected does not exceed: 500,000 dirhams for industrial, commercial and craft activities and 200,000 dirhams for services, is called a self-employed worker.