According to the final communiqué published by the Presidency of the Republic, the head of state reported at the Council of Ministers of Friday 20 June 2025 a cumulative revenue shortfall of more than 1,000 billion CFA francs over three years caused by tax exemptions, including 682.67 billion in domestic taxes and 376.55 billion in border taxes. He decided on the immediate, precautionary suspension of any new exemption for three months, an audit of all derogatory tax and customs regimes and a reform of their eligibility conditions.
The president also asked that companies generating large turnover in Gabon build their own head office, on land allocated by the State, within eighteen months of allocation, or face sanctions. The Minister of State for the Economy specified that from 1 January 2026, every company listed in the trade register, except SMEs with turnover below 2 billion CFA francs, must build or acquire a building to house its head office.
The Council also reassigned the supervision of several bodies: the Administrative Authority of the Nkok special economic zones (ZERP) and of the Ikolo-Lambarene free zone moves to the Ministry of Industry and Local Processing, SOCOREP to the Ministry of Public Works and AGADEV to the Ministry of the Environment. It took note of the six-month suspension of import duties and taxes on basic foodstuffs in Libreville, Akanda, Owendo and Ntoum for holders of the cost-of-living approval, and the head of state asked for a gradual end to free public urban transport, considered financially unsustainable for Trans'Urb and SOGATRA.
