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.