2ND EDITION OF THE KINSHASA SCIENTIFIC DAYS ON THE INCREASE OF STATE PUBLIC REVENUE, INNOVATIONS, STRATEGIES AND RESULTS: INTERVENTION BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA
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Panelist at the 2nd edition of the Kinshasa Scientific Days focused on "increasing public revenues of the State, Innovations, Strategies and Results", the Minister of Foreign Trade made several proposals to allow the Democratic Republic of Congo to increase revenues to face the challenges of development, security and the improvement of the living conditions of the population by going from a pathetic budget of 20 billion dollars to 50 billion within 5 years, see 100 billion US dollars in the next 10 years.
Before the President of the National Assembly, Aimé Boji, National Deputies, Senators, members of the Government, economic operators, academics and delegates from civil society, the Minister of Foreign Trade pleaded for synergy between Parliament which legislates, the Government which mobilizes public revenue, justice which provides security and the private sector which produces, the consolidation of the improvement of the business climate with the elimination of so-called toxic taxes, the revisitation of the law on the tax nomenclature and taxes, support for Parliament and Justice to crack down on people who want to sabotage the reform on the digitalization of pre-customs clearance, customs clearance and post-customs clearance procedures for goods with the electronic transmission of the documentary bundle from the S One system of the Comprehensive Single Window for Foreign Trade-GUCE to the Sydonia Word system of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise-DGDA, launched on December 29, 2025 and the establishment of a new governance architecture with 3 levels of power, notably central, provincial and territorial, as a development coordination entity, but also, the increase in the country's productive capacities in the field of agriculture.
On the other hand, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Budget, Adolphe Muzito and the Minister of Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Justin Kalumba insisted on the digitalization of the Congolese economy and the implementation of incentive measures
Giving the go-forward to this 3-day work, the Speaker of the House of Parliament, Aimé Boji called on the panelists and participants to propose innovative reforms to increase public revenue in the DRC.
