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The Minister of Finance informs the public that he has implemented software for requesting vehicle registration plates. This software will allow applicants to submit their files online and pay without the need to physically go to an office of the Directorate General of Taxes.

We kindly ask you to find, below, the deadlines for the legal and tax procedures to be carried out during the month of February 2024: 1 - Submission of the declaration and proof of payment of the property tax; - Submission of the declaration and proof of payment of the Rental Income Tax; 10 - Filing with the competent customs office of the declaration of excise products covering the previous month by the manufacturer of the goods or the supplier of the services referred to in Article 3 of the Excise Code; - Filing of statistics (sales, service, production, import and export) with:

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The tax code updated on July 10, 2023 in its book 1, first part, page 43 sets the sales prices of the pair of vehicle registration plates, including the security screws, are set as follows:

In light of new decrees signed on December 7, 2023 and published in the official journal in the special issue of December 14, 2023 relating to the rate of property tax and the tax on rental income as well as the methods of collecting the 'IRL on housing allowances for employees in the city of Kinshasa, we have the advantage of inviting you to a tax morning that the FEC is organizing on January 18, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at its headquarters.

The new 3% tax on consumers of electrical energy from the national electricity company (SNEL SA.) in the Democratic Republic of Congo has not yet been implemented on its customers, we have learned Tuesday from an administrative source. “This tax is not yet applicable to domestic customers. It will only concern high-voltage mining customers,” declared Fabrice Lusinde Wa Lusangi, general director of SNEL. For him, this information was only a circular that the national electricity company received from the Electricity Sector Regulatory Authority (ARE).

The National Electricity Company comes in our circular to inform high voltage customers, consumers of electrical energy, of the introduction of the new tax set at 3%, which will apply from the invoice for the month of January 2024 . With reference to the interministerial decree

Article 1: This Order establishes the conditions for being subject to value added tax by option in application of the provisions of Article 14 of Ordinance-Law No. 10/001 of August 20, 2010 establishing the tax on added value, as amended and supplemented to date. Article 2: Legal entities and natural persons whose annual turnover is below the value-added tax liability threshold may opt for the value-added tax regime.

The General Directorate of Taxes reminds companies in the mining sector that the payment deadline for the fourth installment in respect of the tax on profits and profits (IBP) for the 2023 financial year occurs no later than this Thursday 30 Number 2023.

At the end of the elective general assembly this Monday in Kinshasa, the businessman Robert Mulamba has just replaced Albert Yuma at the head of the Federation of Congolese Enterprises (FEC). Albert Yuma, who spent 18 years as president of the FEC, was not a candidate for his own succession.

In the event of late filing of a declaration, the law provides in its Articles 29 and 30 the following Article 29 Article 89 of Law No. 004/2003 of March 13, 2003 on Reform of tax procedures is amended as follows: "Article 89: When the defaulting debtor regularizes his situation before receiving formal notice to declare and within the time limit set in Article 5 of this Law, only an increase equal to 25% of the amount of tax declared

Through correspondence addressed to its central, urban and provincial directors, the General Directorate of Administrative, Judicial, State and Participation Revenue (DGRAD) announced the rate of fees to be paid and the modalities for the issuance of the secure biometric driving license and with chip in the DRC, in accordance with the interministerial decree of August 2, 2023, signed by the ministers of transport Marc Ekila and finance Nicolas Kazadi.