Bunia, September 3rd, 2025 (CPA) – A campaign to identify households and collection of the minimum personal tax (IPM) has been launched in the municipality of Mbunya, Bunia, main town of the province of Ituri in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the CPA has learned on Wednesday from administrative sources.
» The identification campaign for households will be combined with the collection of the Minimum Personal Tax (IPM), which is set at 5,000 Congolese francs per person aged from 18 years upwards, in collaboration with the Congolese Anti-Corruption and Anti-Crime Society (SOCAS ), which is one of the partners implementing this operation , » has said Senior Commissioner Jean-Marie Fwamba. Kashimbata, Burgomaster of the municipality of Mbunya.
Given the security situation on this last day throughout the province of Ituri in general and in the city of Bunia in particular, he has continued, ‘we have agreed with our partners to proceed with the launching of a campaign to identify all households in the eight districts of the municipality.’ He has suggested that the duration of this campaign will depend on the speed at which his partner can cover all social groups within his jurisdiction.