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angle-left ANAPI raises women entrepreneurs' awareness of the payment of taxes and duties

Sensitize women entrepreneurs on the tax incentives taken in favor of Congolese small and medium-sized enterprises

Entrepreneurship is seen as an important catalyst for economic and social growth and development in many countries

15 Sep 2020 - 00:00:00
The National Agency for the Promotion of Investments (ANAPI) has made women entrepreneurs aware of the need to leave the informal for the formal and pay taxes regularly. It was during a morning of discussions and sharing of experiences, organized Thursday, September 10 in Kinshasa, in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Planning, Elysée Munembwe, and the Minister of Gender, Family and child, Beatrice Lomeya. After discussions and debates, the VPM of the plan encouraged women entrepreneurs to pay taxes regularly to enable the country to build infrastructure and finance development projects. quotIn the DRC, female entrepreneurship is considered one of the important vectors of economic growth, given the large number of women who give themselves to it. It is also one of the important pillars of the five-year program of his Excellency President Félix-Antoine Tshisekediquot, she recalled. In his speech, Elysée Munembwe congratulated ANAPI for this initiative and asked it to multiply this kind of morning of exchanges for the benefit of rural women. For the Minister of Gender Béatrice Lomeya, it is not enough to pay taxes and duties, it is also necessary to ensure that these royalties are actually paid into the state coffers. This awareness-raising morning also saw the participation of the head of studies at the General Directorate of Taxation (DGI), the deputy director general of the National Institute for Professional Preparation (INPP), the legal director of the Caisse Nationale de Social Security (CNSS), the Director General of the National Employment Office (ONEM) and the Director General of the General Directorate of Administrative, Judicial, State and Investment Revenue (DGRAD). In their speeches, they, each in their own right, made women entrepreneurs aware of the role of taxation in the process of developing a nation and the need to regularly submit their staff to professional training, a question of always be competitive. In her speech, the representative of the Federation of Enterprises of Congo (FEC) at these meetings pleaded for the establishment of a national program to promote women's entrepreneurship. While welcoming this initiative, the women entrepreneurs who took part in this work pleaded for the eradication of the multiplicity of taxes and tax harassment in the DRC. At the end of these discussions, the Director General of ANAPI Anthony Nkinzo Kamole and his deputy affirmed to take note of all the recommendations made by the participants. They also encouraged women entrepreneurs to come together and trust each other to build their businesses. Organized with the support of the Financing Implementation Unit for Fragile States (CFEF), as part of the World Bank's Western Growth Pole Development Project, this morning of discussions was part of the of ANAPI's annual work plan, budgeted for fiscal year 2020.

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