The Tax Authority (AT) collected just over 338 billion Meticais in state revenue in 2023, while it had expected to collect around 360 billion Meticais. 

The figure represents a growth of 11% compared to 2022, revealed yesterday the president of the institution, Amélia Muendane, quoted by the portal  O Country.

Still quoted by the portal, Muendane says that the target has not been reached given that in absolute terms, 338.295,3 million Meticais were collected in 2023 (provisional data), compared to 302.470,73 million Meticais in 2022.

However, according to the source, in 2023 there was a nominal growth of 11% in revenue collection.

AT also said that despite the pandemic, which devastated the world's economies in 2020, cyclones Idai and Kenneth and terrorism in the north of the country, Mozambique remained stable, "with average annual growth of around 9% from 2015 to 2023", with the highest peak being in 2019, when, according to the source, state revenue grew by 32%.

Muendane was speaking on Wednesday in the city of Maputo during the opening of the first national training seminar on cooperatives, an event that brings together members of the Tax Authority and the National Program for Cooperative Development.