Morocco Launches Digital Tax Surveillance Unit to Track Online Financial Activity

The tax authorities are adapting to Information and Communication Technologies to better fulfill their mission. The Internet has become the tool that will help them verify tax returns.

The objective is to trace the taxpayers and particularly those who are not on their radar. In its sights, there are people operating in the rental of real estate, experts and researchers who regularly give conferences sometimes paid tens of thousands of dirhams, those who display their wealth on social networks, etc. To achieve this, the tax authorities will be responsible for verifying the announcements made on specialized websites such as Airbnb, Booking and others.

To ensure the tracking on the Internet of bad taxpayers, the DGI has appointed a head of the Internet research department, a department attached to the Tax Recoupment and Verification Service, reports the economist.

As a prelude to the official launch of this new tracking tool, the DGI went to the school of the Spanish, French and Dutch tax administrations - renowned experts in this field, specifies the same source.