2027 Budget: Customs, CRADEC Explore Reforms to Plug Revenue Leakages

Cameroon’s Directorate General of Customs and the African Regional Centre for Endogenous and Community Development (CRADEC) are exploring reforms aimed at tightening controls on financial flows and strengthening state revenue mobilization as preparations advance for the 2027 Finance Law. The proposals include linking taxpayer databases across key public institutions, improving disclosure of the real owners of companies and strengthening cross-border controls in sectors considered vulnerable to illicit financial flows. The measures were discussed during an audience granted to CRADEC Executive Director Jean Mballa Mballa on August 19 by Hélène Elise Etaba Bikoun, head of Customs’ Revenue Collection and Statistics Division, who represented the Director General of Customs, according to information published by the Directorate General of Customs. The discussions come as the government prepares its fiscal framework for 2027, with domestic revenue mobilization and efforts to curb financial leakages among the issues under consideration. CRADEC has proposed the creation of a single national taxpayer database through the interconnection of Customs records with databases managed by the Directorate General of Taxation (DGI), the National ...
2026-08-21 02:14:36