The new PISA results are particularly severe for Morocco. At age 15, 87% of the students assessed fail to reach the minimum level in reading, 84% in mathematics and 77% in science.
Morocco is considering applying for membership in the OECD, according to Africa Intelligence. This prospect comes as Aziz Akhannouch has just travelled to Paris to present the economic and social reforms carried out by the Kingdom before the organisation’s Council.
The European Commission is preparing a general ban on waste exports to non-OECD countries. Morocco, which had requested to continue receiving them after May 2027, would be directly affected if the text is adopted.
France rejected around 40% of applications from Moroccan seasonal workers in 2024. The figure was provided by Paris and cited in a recent European Commission report on seasonal work in the Union.
Morocco scores zero on lobbying practice in the OECD’s latest assessment of public integrity. The Kingdom meets only 20% of the regulatory criteria examined, far below the averages observed in the organization’s member countries.
Morocco applies a maximum corporate tax rate of 35%, one of the four highest recorded by the OECD in 2026. It is well above the average observed across the 146 jurisdictions studied.
Morocco now applies one of the highest legal corporate tax rates in the world. At 35%, its maximum rate is only surpassed by France among the 146 jurisdictions studied by the OECD.
Projects financed by the European Union in Morocco could be reserved, in part or in full, for suppliers established in Europe . Moroccan companies would officially remain eligible, but Brussels would have several mechanisms to favor its own operators.
Moroccan companies could continue to respond to calls for tender and benefit from European Union funding after 2028. But Brussels would retain the power to reserve certain contracts for European suppliers when it considers its strategic interests to be under threat.
Fouzi Lekjaa assures that the bill on the exchange of tax information does not target Moroccan residents abroad. The text concerns large multinationals, not the tax data of MREs.
Nasser Bourita assures that new fiscal agreements linked to the OECD do not concern MRE. According to the minister, they target only large multinational groups with annual turnover exceeding 750 million euros.
A vast investigation reveals how Moroccan companies divert export subsidies to evade taxes. Their ultimate goal: massively transfer their profits abroad to purchase residences or foreign nationalities.