Laws & Regulations

Businessmen in Cameroon have urged the Government to reduce the amount of taxes levied on their businesses as part of the moves to ameliorate the business climate in the country badly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Al-Sayed al-Qusair stated Sunday that the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) approved putting Egypt on a list of countries having facilities free of bird flu.

The decision was taken during a meeting of Ministers in charge of Forest, Industry and Environment of Central African countries including Cameroon which held via video conferencing on September 18.

Cocoa is strategic in Côte d'Ivoire: it represents 10 to 15% of GDP, nearly 40% of export revenues and provides a living for five to six million people, or one-fifth of the population, according to the World Bank.

In a letter to banks, the CBE said that, as part of a government initiative to end disputes between taxpayers and the Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA), it will remove levy on taxpayers’ bank accounts, so long as they pay 1% of the disputed tax value.

The farmers emphasised that youth, who were idle before they started being hired to ferry sorghum to the factory and also to farm it, now stare at unemployment and poverty.

The Ministry of Agriculture in Morocco announced on May 4 that it will extend the suspension of customs duties on common wheat beyond June 15, in an official press release. The decision is the second extension of the suspension.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance (MoF) approved the import of duty-free imported agricultural mechanization, irrigation and animal feed technologies.

The Kenyan trade ministry plans to initiate preliminary talks with the the Treasury with a view to further reducing the tax burden on micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to create and grow new jobs.