Morocco’s Tax Amnesty Deadline Looms: Taxpayers Have Until June 30 to Clear Debts

This tax amnesty also extends to surcharges, penalties, late payment interest and collection costs of the State’s non-tax and non-customs claims, reports Challenge, adding that if it is only a matter of surcharges, penalties and collection costs related to these claims, the cancellation is total and is carried out automatically. The purpose of the measure is to encourage taxpayers to pay their tax debts before July 1, 2021.

Thus, the taxpayers concerned who are exempt from a prior request for gracious remission can benefit from an automatic 50% reduction of the amounts resulting from the said tax penalties, provided they pay 50% of the amount, indicates the same source, specifying that the cancellations are carried out automatically by the tax administration collector or collector, upon full payment of the principal of taxes, duties and levies.

Excluded from the benefit of this exceptional measure are taxes, duties and levies provided for in particular by local taxation and "parafiscal taxes", as well as cases that have been the subject of a procedure to rectify the tax base that has resulted, before January 1, 2021, in the conclusion of a written agreement, accompanied by the issuance of the tax assessment before that date.

Thus, this month of June offers the Public Treasury the opportunity to make an "exceptional harvest" and to provide a kitty in the State’s coffers, already weakened by the economic effects of the health crisis. The interest for the taxpayers concerned is to clean up their tax situation and reset their tax meters to zero, after June 30, concludes the media.