REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN Paix – Travail – Patrie REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Peace – Work – Fatherland
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PRESS RELEASE
The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Development remind all taxpayers that, in accordance with Article C4 of Law No. 2024/020 of December 23, 2024, on local taxation, the State’s tax authorities are henceforth responsible for administering all taxes, duties, and fees devolved to Councils (CTD).
However, until the effective establishment of the Tax Centres in charge of Local and Personal Income Taxes (CFLP) and the deployment of digital tools necessary for the effective administration of communal fees and duties under Article C91 of the aforementioned law, Councils are still authorised, on a transitional basis, to collect the following levies :
- Livestock slaughter fees;
- Impoundment fee
- Market stalls/space rents;
- building and development permit fees;
- Parking and docking fees;
- Municipal excise duty on polluting activities (livestock transit and transhumance, quarry product transport, forestry product recovery, road and/or pavement degradation).
Councils (CTD) are also still authorised to sell local fiscal stamps under the usual terms and conditions.
The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Development would also like to remind taxpayers who were previously subject to the Discharged Tax and other levies under the old 2009 local taxation law that they are still liable for the tax instalments pertaining to the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, which had a due date of January 15, 2025. They therefore invite taxpayers to contact the Divisional Tax Centres or Councils, as applicable, to fulfil this residual tax obligation.
In addition, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Development would like to emphasise that the payment of local taxes stipulated in the new local taxation law must now be made solely to the operational services of the Directorate General of Taxation (DGT), according to the procedures defined in the Manual of Tax Procedures (LPF), namely: filing an online declaration on the DGT website and paying the relevant taxes through digital means or by bank transfer.
In anticipation of the imminent establishment of the Centre in charge of Local and Personal Income Taxes (CFLP), the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Development invite all taxpayers who, until now, have been fulfilling their tax obligations with the Councils, to contact the territorially competent Divisional Tax Centres (CDI) to register and be listed in the Directorate General of Taxation's taxpayers' database.
03 MARS 2025
Done in Yaoundé, the...
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