The General Directorate of Taxes (DGI) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) jointly held a new lunch discussion on the draft Tax Code on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at the Karibe Convention Center, according to a statement from the Ministry of Economy and Finance dated July 30.
The General Directorate of Taxes (DGI) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) jointly organized, on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at the Karibe Convention Center, a new lunch dialogue on the draft Tax Code, according to a statement from the Ministry of Economy and Finance dated July 30.
The new draft Tax Code, long anticipated, is expected to enter its implementation phase next October. With this in mind, the two institutions (DGI and MEF) agreed to meet with various civil society actors, including former senior public officials who have extensive experience in tax matters.As part of these consultations, the former provisional President of the Republic, the former Director General of the DGI, and former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Jocelerme Privert, hosted the lunch dialogue held last week. And on Thursday, July 30, 2026, a meeting was scheduled with another figure just as passionate about public finance and equally experienced in public administration, to continue the lunch dialogue focused on the tax code, in the person of Mr. André Lemercier Georges. He has served in turn as Director of the DGI, Secretary of State in charge of Finance, chairman of commissions in charge of tax reforms, and Minister of Economy and Finance, according to the statement.
Among the personalities who took part in this luncheon discussion were: the Minister of Economy and Finance, Serge Gabriel Collin; the Director General of the DGI, Chesnel François; the Deputy Director General, Alfred Pierre; the Director of the DGI Technical Council, Carl Edwice Estima; and members of the said council, including Paul Valmy Eugène, tax advisor to the head of the MEF, Jean Hervé Alcé, as well as members of the MEF’s Fiscal Policy Committee.
In his opening remarks, the DGI Director General, Chesnel François, highlighted the stakes of the reform in terms of modernizing the tax system and the need for a simple legal framework that fits the country’s economic realities.The Republic’s top financier, Serge Gabriel Collin, on his part, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to supporting the DGI in the modernization process. He specifically suggested strengthening management tools and clearly separating the functions of assessment and collection.
As for the main guest of the meeting, Mr. André Lemercier Georges, he provided a thorough analysis of the new tax code in light of the challenges of economic reconstruction and national competitiveness. He strongly emphasized in his speech the need to find a balance between raising tax revenue and supporting economic activity, given the weakness of the private sector where the informal economy is predominant.The lunch dialogue isn’t over yet. It still has plenty of life ahead before the October deadlines. We all agreed on how important its role as a catalyst has been. It brought together the most prominent citizens from the finance world, representing various schools of thought, to collectively find the core essence that should make the tax code a participatory, collaborative work,” says the MEF statement, which also highlighted the participants’ eagerness to continue consultations with different sectors of national life. This is aimed at ensuring the successful implementation of the new tax code.
