Tax
From The Report: Morocco 2016
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This chapter provides an overview of Morocco’s taxation system and examines its investor-friendly business environment.

This chapter contains an interview with Kamal Mokdad, Managing Partner; and a viewpoint from Asma Charki, Partner, Mazars Morocco, on Casablanca Finance City.

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Overview

Keeping up: A guide to the main tax measures adopted by the new Finance Law of 2016
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As part of the numerous reforms that have made Morocco an economic model in the region, the Finance Law for 2016 is the next step in the implementation of profound tax reforms initiated by the government following the work carried out during the national conference on taxation held in Skhirat in April 2013. As published in the Official Bulletin No. 6423, Finance Law 70-15 (Law 70-15), enacted by Decree No. 1-15-150 of December 19, 2015, aims, in particular, to: Strengthen tax fairness in Morocco; Improve…

Viewpoint

Hand in hand: Kamal Mokdad, Managing Partner; and Asma Charki, Partner, Mazars Morocco, on Casablanca Finance City (CFC)
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Driven by the goal of becoming an economic and financial centre for investors and international institutions, Morocco is today proud of the achievements of CFC. It even exceeded Johannesburg on the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) in 2016. CFC ranked 33rd out of 86 cities worldwide, against 44th in 2015, ahead of Johannesburg at 51st. Nearly six years after its creation, CFC is considered the third-most-promising financial centre in the world after Singapore and Shanghai, according to the GFCI. This ranking is not a fortunate coincidence but a result of a strategic vision that aims to make Morocco a global platform for actors operating in…