After recording the disappearance of 150,000 businesses between 2022 and 2025, the Moroccan Confederation of Very Small and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises is calling on political parties. It is notably demanding a tax capped at 10%, the end of certain penalties, and better access to public contracts.
Moroccan experts abroad are mobilizing to guarantee national digital sovereignty by 2030 . Gathered in Rabat, they are developing strategies combining artificial intelligence and advanced cryptography to protect data against future cyber threats.
Morocco’s tax authorities have defended the extension of the withholding tax provided for by the 2026 Finance Law. The administration presents the measure as a tool to prevent fraud, promising faster VAT refunds in return.
The government has validated a major tax measure that should facilitate access to smartphones, an essential equipment as the country embarks on its transition to 5G. During the discussion of the 2026 Finance Bill at the House of Councillors, the executive agreed to reduce the import duties on mobile phones from 17.5% to 2.5%.
The Foreign Exchange Office has presented its annual report for 2024, a document that shows a profound transformation of the institution. It is moving towards a model that combines the preservation of financial balances with the promotion of economic openness and good governance.
During an informal exchange with students from ESSEC Paris on June 12, Moulay Hafid Elalamy discussed his professional and political career as well as the ongoing acquisition of Société Générale Maroc.
The French Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, is expected to participate in April in Rabat at the 2024 Morocco-France Business Forum, organized by the Movement of French Enterprises (MEDEF) and the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM).
The draft decree concerning a revision of the guaranteed minimum interprofessional wage (SMIG) and the guaranteed minimum agricultural wage (SMAG) has been approved by the government council.
The diplomatic chill between France and Morocco is now spreading to the economic field. Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, head of the French employers’ organization (Medef), was forced to postpone his planned trip to Rabat on June 26.
Morocco attaches great importance to Moroccans living abroad in the development of a new investment charter. In this sense, a meeting was organized on Tuesday in Rabat, in order to collect their proposals.
Self-entrepreneurs, a status launched in 2015, are few to declare their turnover to the Tax Directorate. A situation that worries Moroccan employers and which the 2023 Finance Bill could remedy.
In a request made since July, the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) is asking for time before the implementation of the anti-pollution standard called "Euro 6" already in force in Europe and which will be applied from January 2023 to Moroccan carriers.