Here are the headlines prepared by the national press for Saturday, March 25, 2023
the morning
The government is pressing the accelerator of the private investment support system, on which the national economy relies heavily, to reach a higher level. The decree activating this device has been published in the Official Gazette. The text defines the conditions for benefiting from investment subsidies by identifying future professions and activities that promote the upgrading of the Moroccan economy. The main investment support mechanism revolves around 5 joint bonuses, a regional bonus and a sector bonus. These bonuses will be awarded to eligible companies based on the amount of investment and the number of stable jobs to be created and can be accumulated up to 30% of the investment amount. Biotechnology, robotics, blockchain or even autonomous mobility… More than fifty sectors are listed and offer huge potential for growth.
The Economist
Still, the flip side of the 2023 edition of corporate tax reform is the realignment of the withholding tax measure on income from stocks, shares, and similar income. Indeed, during the 2023-2026 transition period, rates will gradually decrease by 15% to stabilize at 10%. But what is likely to give practitioners a hard time remains the application of appropriate rates to income generated at the end of each of the next four years. Thus, dividends distributed in 2023 for fiscal year 2022 and earlier will still be taxable at up to 15% when depleted.
opinion
Like its cousin, the print press, the publishing and book sector has for years struggled to hold its head above water in the face of an accelerating wave of digitization with effects exacerbated by the chronic illiteracy of the masses and the constant erosion of their purchasing power. . Also like journalism, this sector nonetheless benefits from a multifaceted subsidy policy, including the famous government subsidies for which applications began in mid-March. In this unequal struggle for survival, the textbook, which benefits from large sales every year, stands out thanks to its utilitarian nature that guarantees it a permanent bestseller status. This is by no means the case for the book and the beautiful book, which must struggle hard to continue to exist. Abstraction is a noble industry that deserves to survive.
Statement
At the 55th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (COM2023), held in Addis Ababa, Morocco called for the promotion of investments to ensure agriculture that is more resilient to climate change shocks and food security in the continent. . The Moroccan delegation called for the implementation of initiatives in the field of green financing, which represents a basic lever for combating climate change in both aspects of mitigation and adaptation, noting that the mobilization of large resources cannot be guaranteed by countries alone. It is therefore necessary to appeal to private capital, at the national and international levels, in particular, to confront these challenges and to include the financing approach in the logic of partnership.
launch
French journalist and writer Alain Jordan asserted that France is “the biggest loser in the crisis of bilateral relations with Morocco, in a broader context marked by Paris’ stagnation in a new wave of decolonization in Africa.” “The prolongation and development of the crisis makes it difficult to get out of a recession that does not fail to anger the French economic elite, which has interests and a traditional presence in the Moroccan business community,” an analysis of your pessimistic strategy by a business researcher in an interview.
Moroccan desert
Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch affirmed that the executive authority has taken all necessary measures to enhance the supply and stock of basic products in order to ensure the supply of the natural market during the month of Ramadan. Akhannouch emphasized in his speech at the beginning of the government council’s work that the supply to the markets “takes place under normal circumstances,” as explained by the Minister Plenipotentiary in charge of relations with parliament, government spokesman Mustafa Batas, during a press briefing after the meeting of the board of directors.
diamond
The regional security elements in Al Hoceima managed, based on accurate information provided by the services of the General Directorate of Territorial Control, on Tuesday evening, to arrest six organizers and mediators for their supposed links to a criminal network active in organizing illegal immigration operations by sea. According to a security source, the first elements of the investigation indicate that four individuals among the detainees are active in organizing illegal immigration, while the fifth person is suspected of being involved in mediation operations aimed at attracting candidates for immigration. The sixth suspect is involved in fraud, fraud and identity theft.
Partnership Union
With the opening of the consulates of about thirty countries since 2019, the cities of Dakhla and Laayoune have become, in a few years, the “embodiment” of the “diplomatic progress” that Morocco has achieved in the matter of its territorial integrity. Pan-African magazine Jeune Afrique. The two cities also embody the “success” of the new development model for the southern provinces of the Kingdom, launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI in 2015, the magazine confirms in an article published on its website. Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, the United Arab Emirates, Gabon, Jordan, Bahrain, Djibouti … Over the past four years, several countries have opened consulates there, most of which have congregated in what serves as a diplomatic quarter in these symbolic cities like the Sahara. , note.
