The fiscal administration at the service of local authorities

With a view to promoting and sustaining the decentralization process, the Ministry of Finance is involved in the smooth running of the activities of the local communities. This includes:

In the technical field

The assistance of the Ministry of Finance to the local communities is focused on the following actions:

• Providing the expertise of the Tax services through the use of its personnel ;
• Providing support by the fiscal administration through seminars, refresher and upgrading courses ;
• Providing technical assistance in matters relating to tax control and litigation;
• Ordering and making provision for council stamps;
• Ordering, selling and remitting the proceeds of the windscreen licences to local authorities;
• Managing certain local taxes and duties ;
• Collecting and remitting to local authorities, revenues from local taxes managed by the State fiscal services ;

In the field of cash flow

These are tax exemptions likely to assist the local communities, such as:

• Granting certificates of exemption from company tax;
• Free registration of acts which should normally be registered at the expense of the local communities;
• Free registration of contracts signed between local communities and other companies;
• Exempting local communities from the payment of business licence for their cultural, educational, health, social, sporting and tourist activities.