Togo: Automated Marking System Generates CFA35.8 Billion Over Five Years

Economic governance
Thursday, 03 April 2025 13:50
Togo: Automated Marking System Generates CFA35.8 Billion Over Five Years

(Togo First) - Launched in 2020, Togo's Automated Marking System (SAM) has generated CFA35.8 billion in revenue for tax authorities. The technology combats fraud, secures consumer products, and optimizes tax collection. 

Over the past five years, SAM has tracked over 2 billion products and referenced more than 600 economic operators, as revealed at a national workshop in Lomé.

The SAM targets products like water, beer, juice, wine, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages. The beer sector alone contributed CFA5 billion between 2022 and 2024, noted Esso-Wavana Adoyi, chairman of the product marking committee.

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Building on the tool’s success, authorities are expanding product marking to include sugar, oils, cement, fuel, cosmetics, fertilizers, and minerals. The goal is to enhance traceability, combat counterfeiting, and improve the business climate.

Akou Mawussé Adétou Afidenyigba, Director of Cabinet at the Ministry of the Economy, emphasized that the SAM aligns with the government's 2020-2025 economic modernization roadmap. The next step involves intensifying controls and inspections to address current gaps in Togo.

This article was initially published in French by Ayi Renaud Dossavi

Edited in English by Ola Schad Akinocho

 

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