Pemba, Mozambique, July 7, 2025 (Lusa) - Mozambique imported 1,233 used cars from Japan in the first half of the year, which entered via Tanzania, on the border with Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, announced the Tax Authority (AT), which registers almost 170 vehicles entering the country every month.
“We have registered around 168 vehicles per month. In 2024, we registered the entry of 2,024 vehicles from Negomano. In the first half of this year, 2025, we had 1,233 vehicles entering the country,” the Tax Authority delegate in Cabo Delgado, Helmano Nhatitima, said on Monday.
Speaking to journalists, he pointed to an increase in the number of used cars imported from Japan entering the country via Tanzania, through the Negomano border post in the district of Mueda, Cabo Delgado.
The delegate of the Tax Authority in Cabo Delgado also said that the import of vehicles through that point has been improving revenue collection for the state coffers.
“In 2023, we, as an institution, made about 27.1 million meticais (€361,000), against a target of 24.1 million meticais (€321,000), which is 112%.” And in 2024, we made 36 million meticais (€480,000),” said Helmano Nhatitima, pointing to the annual improvement in revenue collected for the state coffers in that province.
Mozambique will increase tax audits, tax online sales and include 200,000 new taxpayers as part of its strategy to mobilise domestic revenue, according to the 2025 budget proposal that parliament approved in May, the first of Daniel Chapo’s government, who was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic on 15 January.
According to the Economic and Social Plan and State Budget (PESOE) 2025, also promulgated in May by the Mozambican President, “on the revenue side, the government will implement reforms to broaden the tax base and improve the efficiency of tax collection”.
These reforms include, according to the document, “strengthening the institutional capacity of the Mozambican Tax Authority with a view to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the tax system”, optimising the taxation of digital transactions and “strengthening the control of the application of reference prices for the export of mineral and agricultural products”.
It also provides for “modernising the taxation mechanisms of the digital economy”, with “special emphasis” on the taxation of commissions of electronic money agents and institutions, and of tourism agents “in the context of digital transactions and the VAT and ISPC framework for economic agents selling goods and services online”, with a view to “strengthening the institutional capacity of the Mozambican Tax Authority in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the tax system” by 2025.
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