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In a Whatsapp Forum of members of the Congolese Business Federation (FEC), several members are asking themselves whether the applicability of this reform will indeed take place on March 1, 2025 as the tax administration has announced. Tax En RDC presents some concerns deemed relevant.

For the period from January 1 to March 31, 2024, ten (10) issues, including three (3) special and seven (7) ordinary, were published in the Official Journal. From their exploitation, we draw the attention of the business world to the following legislative and regulatory texts:

The General Directorate of Administrative, Judicial, State and Participation Revenues, DGRAD in acronym, brings to the attention of legal and natural persons, subject to numbering taxes, import-export number granting, annual surface rights per square to the annual fee for approval of purchase and sale counters of authorized mineral substances, the annual operating fee for security companies, the annual fee on ordinary concessions, the fee on the possession of radio channel frequencies and televisions, as well as PTNTIC royalties? that the payment deadline is March 31, 2024.

The Council of Ministers of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), Considering the Treaty relating to the harmonization of business law in Africa, signed in Port-Louis on October 17, 1993, as revised in Quebec on October 17, 2008, notably in its articles 2, 5 to 10 and 12; Having regard to the Report of the Permanent Secretariat and the observations of the States Parties; Considering Opinion No. 003/2106 dated December 20, 2016 of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration; After deliberation, unanimously adopts the States Parties present and voting, the Uniform Act, the content of which 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 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

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT CITY OF KINSHASA PROVINCIAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMY ORDER OF THE PROVINCIAL MINISTER N°015/CAB/MIN. PROV/END. ECO/2023 OF DECEMBER 07, 2023 AMENDING THE ORDER OF THE PROVINCIAL MINISTER No. 016/CAB/MIN.PROV/FIN.ECO/2022 OF OCTOBER 14, 2022 SETTING THE TAX RATES ON RENTAL INCOME……………… …………….………………………………………..5

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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.

Following the urgent measures which were taken during the one hundred and fifth meeting of the Council of Ministers on July 21, 2023, in particular the payment of all taxes, fees and duties due to the State in Congolese francs, I have the advantage to inform you that, on the instructions of his Excellency President of the Republic, Head of State, mining companies must sell the share of their currencies repatriated to the central bank of Congo in exchange for Congolese francs on the basis of a rate .

The Federation of Businesses in Congo (FEC) contacted the Prime Minister regarding multiple on-site inspection missions from various state services, carried out near businesses, particularly in tax matters, non-tax revenues and economic control.

To avoid overlapping non-tax revenue control missions on the ground, the Director General of the DGRAD, on October 6, 2022, signed decision no. 078/DGRAD/DG/DC/2022 relating to the attributions of acts