Morocco starts taxing web giants as digital economy takes off
Social media platforms such as Meta, X, Instagram, TikTok, Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb have transformed from simple entertainment and social connection tools into powerful economic machines that often evade traditional state control and regulation. For Morocco, this shift is now undeniable. On June 11, 2026, the country's tax authority launched a dedicated platform to tax digital services, ending years of fiscal uncertainty.Paul Romer, 2018 Nobel Prize winner in economics, laid the theoretical groundwork: technological progress is not accidental but stems from rational economic calculations. Social networks, born in research centres such as MIT, Harvard and Silicon Valley, perfectly illustrate this dynamic. They were designed, funded and deployed because actors saw profitability.The number...
