Heba Press – Abdul Latif Baraka
Online content creators will face a new tax ruling that will come into effect on January 1, 2025, deducting approximately a third of content creators’ profits in Morocco in the form of tax which will be transferred to the public treasury.
The new tax ruling was supported by most followers and they considered it correct and appropriate, especially since most content creators are now marketing a trivial product to the public in exchange for collecting money without accountability or supervision.
While others found the aforementioned decision insufficient to restrict “frivolous” contents, most of which harm adolescents and children, as they include harmful behaviors that violate public morals, and some of them incite corruption, low moral behavior and attack the values of Moroccans, which requires them to activate a certain number of articles of criminal law. To contain the phenomenon, instead of being satisfied with tax deductions, because this situation can become more dangerous for Moroccans, given the possibility of resorting to other methods, in order to develop income.
There is a group that strongly opposed the decision to impose a 30 percent tax and confirmed that they will move to Turkey, the Emirates or one of the countries that do not impose a tax on content on the internet, and this group makes millions every month from the nonsense they spew on social media platforms.
They rose up against the government’s decision and saw it as an exploitation of their efforts and an effort by the government to increase its treasury on the shoulders of content creators. They firmly rejected it and threatened to resort to several methods other than receiving their money. profits via Moroccan banks to camouflage the authorities.
