Dakar, Dec 27 (APS) – Senegal will put in place the system for controlling and charging incoming calls to Senegal, the Prime Minister announced on Friday in Dakar, estimating that this measure will generate parafiscal revenue for the country. of the order of 50 billion CFA francs per year.
”We will reinstate the system for controlling and charging incoming calls [au Sénégal]”, declared Ousmane Sonko while making his general policy declaration to the deputies.
These calls have no longer been subject to taxation since 2012, he recalled.
Mr. Sonko affirms that ”taxation on incoming calls [au Sénégal] should allow the State to collect parafiscal revenues of around 50 billion CFA francs per year.
Stopping their taxation is a “very generous tax gift, [qui] was not based on any technically documented and economically justified argument,” he argued.
”This renunciation caused the Public Treasury to lose hundreds of billions of CFA francs, from 2012 to 2024,” declared Ousmane Sonko, adding: ”My government is committed to putting this issue back on the table, from the first quarter 2025.”
According to the Prime Minister, the Ministries of Telecommunications and Finance, the Telecommunications and Postal Regulatory Authority, the General Directorate of Taxes and Lands, telephone operators and consumer associations will carry out a ‘documented study’ ‘ on the advisability of taxing them again.
”On this basis, a new regulation establishing a system of control and taxation of international telephone communications entering [au] Senegal will be adopted,” continued Mr. Sonko.
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