The advent of the Informa-
tion and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) has
not only changed ways
of living but also our ways of
doing things. Ever since Came-
roon embraced the ICTs, a lot
of reforms have been intro-
duced in the domain of doing
business in both the public and
private sectors. At just a click,
a moral or physical person can
conveniently declare his taxes
for instance. Within just two
hours, an aspirant entrepre-
neur can create an enterprise
online (www.mybusiness.cm).
Also at the pilot One Stop Shop
Enterprise Creation Centres
located in Garoua, Douala and
Yaounde, it now takes just 72
hours maximum to create an
enterprise. Given the simplifi-
cation of procedures, some 15,
219 enterprises were created
in 2016. In the first quarter
of 2017, a total of 597com-
panies were created, 593 of
them owned by nationals and
four by foreigners according
to statistics published by the
Ministry of Small and Medium
Size Enterprises, Handicraft and Social Economy (MINPMEESA)
these reforms introduced in
various public administration
such as the Customs, Taxation,
Treasury, Small and Medium
Size Enterprises, Handicraft
and Social Economy, Public
contracts (e-procurement
system) in by Cameroon in the
recent years has multi-face-
ted advantages ranging from
curbing corruption, improving
the business climate amongst
others.
One of the far reaching ad-
vantages of materialisation
of procedures is stemming
corruption as physical contact
and bureaucratic procedures
are eliminated. In an interview
published by a local tabloid on
May 24, 2017 the Director General
of the Treasury, Financial and
Monetary Cooperation in the
Ministry of Finance, Sylvester
Moh, admitted that reforms in
that public administration has
reduced corruption to the barest
minimum. The payment made
to State suppliers, he noted has
moved from 90 to 60 days and
it is done chronologically. He
intimates that suppliers need
not come to their offices to
chase files but can consult the
website www.dgtcfm-cm to
verify the evolution of their
files which if validated must
be paid within 60 days. Came-
roon’s taxation department
was a few years back accused
by anti-grafts watchdogs as a
breeding ground for corruption.
Today, physical contacts have
been greatly reduced as tax
payers can pay their dues online
(teledeclaration). Attestation
for tax payme...
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