Under the patronage and supervision of the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Mr. Salem Saleh bin Braik, and in continuation of the workshop held in Washington, D.C., the workshop on preparing and developing a short-term emergency revenue program for the Customs and Tax Authorities concluded yesterday evening, Wednesday, August 27, 2025, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

The workshop was organized by the IMF’s Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Center (METAC).

Over six days, participants discussed the government’s plans to promote economic recovery, including the priorities of the customs and tax authorities and ongoing modernization projects.

They also discussed cooperation and coordination between both authorities in several areas, including the collection of suspending tax revenues for goods ,services and taxes , as well as the difficulties facing the work of the two authorities.

The workshop resulted in an agreement on an emergency executive program to collect tax and customs revenues at the near-term level, and to motivate the relevant government agencies, especially the customs and tax authorities, to increase coordination between them in order to overcome the difficulties and obstacles that hinder the joint workflow, as well as to take advantage of the available possibilities to increase revenues and strengthen collection procedures, taking into account the difficult political and economic situation that our country is currently going through.

The workshop identified the government’s priorities in several areas, including reviewing procedures related to revenue collection, increasing their effectiveness, enhancing compliance, combating smuggling and tax and customs evasion, encouraging the customs and tax authorities to carry out their work in accordance with their powers defined by law without interference from other parties, training staff working in both authorities, applying the principle of reward and punishment, using automated systems and working according to approved procedural manuals.

The government delegation included the chairman of the Customs Authority,Mr.Abdulhakim Radman Al-Qubati, the deputynof the Tax Authority, Mr. Mohammed Salem Garwan, the assistant deputy of the Ministry of Finance for External Relations, Mr.Abdulqader Amin, and a group of relevant general managers, including the general manager of public relations , the general manager of financial affairs, the general manager of automated system, the general manager of Hadramawt Customs Office and the general manager of Shahen Customs port, and on the IMF side, a group of experts working for the Fund headed by Mr. Tadatsugu Matsudera and Mrs. Fadia Sakr and Mrs. Fadia Sakr.