Morocco’s government said Thursday that state tax revenues are on track to nearly double between 2020 and 2026, while also announcing new measures to strengthen the country’s environmental police.
Government spokesman Mustapha Baitas told reporters after the weekly Cabinet meeting that tax revenues rose from 199 billion dirhams ($19.4 billion) in 2020 to an expected 363 billion dirhams ($35.4 billion) by 2026. Ordinary revenues also increased from 229 billion dirhams in 2020 to 427 billion dirhams projected for 2025, he said.
The government has steadily reduced its budget deficit, which dropped from 7% in 2020 to 3.5% this year and is forecast to fall to 3% in 2026. “This level of deficit is unprecedented,” Baitas said. Public debt, meanwhile, is expected to ease from 72% of GDP in 2020 to 65.8% in 2026.
Baitas said the government’s performance over the past four years had “directly improved the lives of citizens,” particularly through social and economic reforms that helped stabilize Morocco’s macroeconomic indicators.
During the same Cabinet session, Energy Transition Minister Leila Benali presented a decree aimed at reforming the country’s environmental police, which monitor pollution and enforce environmental laws. The reform reduces eligibility requirements for inspectors in order to increase their numbers.
Currently, Morocco employs 48 environmental inspectors, 13 at the central level and 35 regionally, who carry out about 1,200 inspections annually. These include oversight of landfills, quarries, wastewater treatment plants, hazardous waste facilities and seasonal olive oil mills.
The new decree opens the inspector role to all administrative staff, instead of limiting it to senior civil servants and engineers, and reduces the required work experience from five years to one. Authorities aim to increase the number of inspectors to around 80 by 2026.
The reform also expands inspectors’ powers to include monitoring coastal areas under Law 81.12, allowing them to conduct investigations, record violations and issue official reports.
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