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Modeste Mopa Fatoing, born March 15, 1975, in Guidiguis, is a Cameroonian tax expert and senior civil servant. He is head of the Directorate General of Taxation from 2013 to 2023.

Enfance et formation
Modeste Mopa Fatoing was born on March 15, 1975, in Guidiguis, a town in the Mayo-Kani department in the Far North region. He did his primary studies in Guidguis then his secondary cycle at Kaelé high school where he obtained his A4 baccalaureate in 1993. He then joined the University of Douala, where he obtained a degree in private law in 1996. Later, he joined the National School of Administration and Magistracy (Enam) within the financial management division. He was top of his class when he left the school of administration and at the same time obtained a master's degree in business law at the University of Yaoundé 2. .

After a short administrative career in the Directorate General of Taxes, he left Cameroon and continued his studies in France and enrolled at the National School of Administration (ENA) in Paris. He obtained a professional master's degree in public administration in 2007. .

He is married and the father of three children.

Débuts
Modeste Mopa Fatoing began her career in the civil service upon leaving ENAM. He joined the Ministry of Finance via the General Directorate of Taxes, where he rose through the ranks to become head of the legislation division. After obtaining his professional master's degree in public administration at Ena in 2007, he returned to Cameroon, where he held the position of head of the Mfoundi tax sector in the Center region. He works as an adviser to the IMF West Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center and joins the Technical Assistance Center of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Abidjan. Position he held until his appointment as head of the General Directorate of Taxation of Cameroon in 2013.

In 2019, he was elected president of the Center for meetings and studies of the leaders of Tax Administrations in Yaoundé.

Director General of Taxes
On June 14, 2013, he was appointed Director General of Taxation of Cameroon by Presidential Decree No. 2013/176 of June 14, 2013, appointing officials to the Ministry of Finance. , At the age of 38, he was the youngest ever appointed to this position. He succeeds Alfred Bagueka Assobo.

As soon as he was appointed, he introduced numerous organizational and functional reforms which made it possible to modernize the Cameroonian tax administration and considerably increase the country's tax revenue. It sets up care, optimization and tax revenue collection services.

It is setting up a digitization service to reduce contact between tax officials and taxpayers. For the monitoring of SMEs and large companies, it is reorganizing the specialized structures for monitoring collection transfers, business taxes, companies and insurance. Thanks to the reforms made,

the country's tax revenues are experiencing a sharp increase.

During his time at the head of the DGI, he also stood out for his resistance to companies in dishonesty with the tax authorities and crossed swords with several influential figures in the country. In 2020, it imposes a tax adjustment of 40 billion FCFA on Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun. Afterward,

a climate of cold settles between Modeste Mopa Fatoing and Célestin Tawamba, president of the Cameroonian employers. The conflict is said to be due to a tax reform proposal made by GICAM and which, according to Celestin Tawamba, was blocked by the head of the DGI.

In 2021, the companies of media boss Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga are subject to the recovery of a tax debt of more than 30 billion FCFA. And the businessman denounces a "relentlessness".

On January 26, 2023, a decree from the Head of State seconded him to the IMF. He left the DGI in January 2023, leaving behind him an "eloquent record" as the head of the Directorate General of Taxes.

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