Administration du Trésor : Le SUTT monte au créneau et dénonce une tentative de « démantèlement » du Trésor public
The social climate is becoming tense within the Senegalese financial administration. Through an official statement dated Thursday, May 21, 2026, the Unified Union of Treasury Workers (SUTT) expressed its profound astonishment at the content of the explanatory memorandum of the draft law on the General Tax Code.
The union condemns the proposal by the Directorate General of Taxes and State Property (DGID) to transfer local tax collection to its own departments. The SUTT (Tunisian Union of Public Transport Workers) describes this initiative as an inopportune, unfounded, and unseemly attempt to usurp a power historically and exclusively vested in the Treasury, asserting that its agents already exercise it effectively, responsibly, and professionally. According to the union, these ambitions are all the more incomprehensible given that they come in the midst of the SIGIF (Integrated Public Finance Management System) rollout, a vast public finance modernization project in which the Treasury plays a central role.
In the same vein, the SUTT (Tunisian Union of Customs Workers) strongly condemns the maneuvers of the Directorate General of Customs (DGD), which, under the current reform of the General Customs Code, is seeking to regain control of customs duty collection. The union denounces this purely self-serving ambition, which undermines the crucial link between collection and the treasury—a balance essential for the efficient management of public funds. Faced with what it describes as outdated practices that weaken the institutional balance, the union directly appeals to the highest authorities of the Republic and requests the intervention of the Minister of Finance and Budget to safeguard the nation's best interests and the financial viability of local authorities.
To support its position, the SUTT general secretariat, headed by El Hadji Dioumorou Dia, is demanding, seventeen years after its implementation, an objective and transparent evaluation by the Court of Auditors of the transfer of state tax collection that took place in 2009. The union argues that this old reform revealed a significant shortfall for public finances, particularly due to the heavy remuneration paid to third parties involved such as bailiffs and auctioneers, while the Treasury has agents exclusively trained for this purpose.
Inviting the Tax and Estates services to focus instead on respecting the tax calendar and modernizing the local tax base which it considers obsolete, the SUTT reserves the right to take all necessary legal, administrative and trade union actions, while calling on all Treasury workers to remain mobilized and vigilant.
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