Rabat-Nabil Benabdellah, General Secretary of the Opposition Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), has announced that the tax exemptions granted by the government of Akhannouch was scale and cattle from 2022 to 2024 to approximately crazy 13.3 billion (USD 1.38).
Citing an official government document, Benabdellah, specified On the social media platform X, 277 importers benefited from these exceptions. He made it clear that the figures come from “Data and additional information from parliamentary groups and political parties in the House of Representatives”.
According to him, the PPS had clarified the government in October 2024 during the discussion about the 2025 financial law.
Benabdellah’s claim that the actual figures are far beyond the government’s official estimate of 300 million (USD 31.15 million). This amount was announced by Rachid Talbi Alami, spokesman for the House of Representatives and a high -ranking member of the National Assembly of Independents (RNI) party.
He made it clear that the suspension of the import tax of around 120,000 calves from October 21, 2022 to December 31, 2024 cost the state 7.3 billion ($ 758 million). Benabdellah also explained that the state was picked up from February 3, 2023 to October 22, 2024 to cattle imports (VAT) for cattle imports, MAD was 744 million (USD 77.25 million). According to the declaration, only 133 importers benefited from these exceptions.
When it comes to sheep imports, Benabdellah said that the suspension of customs tasks from February 2023 to October 18, 2024 was 3.86 billion ($ 400.83 million). According to reports, the VAT exemption of sheep imports in the same period achieved $ 1.16 billion (USD $ 120.54 million).
The figures have triggered Controversy among Moroccans and within the opposition. Before the revelation of Benabdellah, the party of the judiciary and development (PJD) had already asked the auditing court to start an investigation of the matter in February.
On March 30th the PJD legislator Abdessamad Haiker called For the formation of a parliamentary investigation commission in accordance with Article 67 of the Moroccian constitution in 2011. According to this provision, such commissions can be created on the initiative of the king or at the request of a third of the members of the House of Representatives or the House of Council.
So that the examination for the procedure must gather the support of 131 MPs. A large hurdle in view of the past failure of the party in the securing of enough support Investigation Russian diesel imports in 2023.
