E-filing System: More Secured Payment Platform

The Director General of Taxation continuous to encourage users to make use of the system which eases online tax declaration and payment

Users are increasingly adhering to the country’s e-filing system, just as the Director General of Taxation, Mopa Modeste Fatoing continues to call on the general public to carry out the registration of their deeds pertaining to the acquisition of second-hand cars using the system. In a press release dated August 31, 2017, Fatoing said carrying out the electronic filing and payment of the required taxes prior to the arrival of the cars into the country will save time.
Much earlier, the Director General of Taxation had disclosed that “the experience of advanced countries shows that a tax administration at the service of taxpayers makes an effort to simplify procedures and encourages the majority of citizens to voluntarily comply with their tax obligations.” It is in this light that the Government engaged in so many reforms in the taxation sector, with the e-filing system which aims at easing online tax declaration and getting citizens to support the payment of taxes in a self-assessment tax system going into effect on June 1, 2017.
According to officials of the Legislation Unit of the Director General of Taxation, the online declaration procedure is simple. We gathered that the taxpayer has to log on to : www. impots.cm, and go to the electronic filing section or go directly to: www.teledeclaration-dgi.cm. Once logged on, the taxpayer is expected to create an account, then follow the remaining user-friendly steps to where he or she downloads and prints the summary of the declaration. Upon declarati...