Economy

FEICOM partners with taxation directorate to improve revenue collection.

FEICOM and DGT officials after partnership deal was sealed

The Special Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance, FEICOM, and the Directorate General of Taxes, DGT, have agreed to increase the amount of government revenue collected from the grassroots through the adoption and effective implementation at the level of Decentralised Collectivities, CTD, of a new instrument designed by the government to improve revenue collection.

Codenamed, “Operational Revenue Tracking Guide of CTD and FEICOM", the instrument was introduced to officials of the two institutions and other stakeholders in Yaounde recently.

According to the Director General of FEICOM, Philippe Camille Akoa, to adopt and deploy the instrument at the level of CTDs, it was necessary to first of all organise a conference cum workshop that brought together different stakeholders in government financial mobilisation.

This held under the theme: "Optimisation of the mobilisation of financial resources: implementation of the law and measures bringing local taxation and improvement of tracking through a standard control tool called Operational Revenue Tracking Guide of CTD and FEICOM".

Akoa stressed that the meeting was part of the dynamics of assessing the goals set by the Directorate General of Taxes that is in charge of resource mobilisation and verifying the progress of the resource mobilisation process.

Philippe Camille Akoa, Director General of FEICOM, addressing participants at ceremony

The conference evaluated the implementation of the new local tax law. Speakers at the conference were FEICOM's in-house officials as well as financial experts from the Directorate General of Taxes, the Customs Department and the Treasury Department.

According to the FEICOM boss, the context is also marked by the reforms undertaken within the state's financial regimes, key partners in the mobilisation of resources, aimed at strengthening the performance of this financial activity.

Beyond assessing resource mobilisation tracking, Akoa added that the conference provided a framework for capacity-building, thanks to the input of experts from the Ministry of Finance, which enabled participants to better understand and take advantage of local tax reforms, their impact on the revenues of Decentralised Collectivities, and other financial benefits of the new instrument to the CTDs.

They also deliberated on the perspectives of expanding the financial plate at the level of the customs department.

Akoa said he instructed his teams to capitalise on all the exchanges and propose effective solutions for the mobilisation of more resources, as substantial revenue collection remains the backbone of an institution like FEICOM.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3792 of Monday May 18, 2026