Maait explained that the Government Electronic Payment and Collection Center of the Ministry of Finance, which provides government electronic payment and collection services to the public dealing with government services on many electronic channels since the beginning of May 2019, achieved “very good” operating rates during the period from July 2023 to May 2024. The value of “electronic payment and collection” services amounted to 2.5 trillion pounds during the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, compared to 2.1 trillion pounds during the same period of the last fiscal year, explaining that the growth rate of the electronic payment service for the entitlements of workers in the state “salaries” It reached 24%, with a value of 299.4 billion pounds, compared to about 242.2 billion pounds for the same period in the last fiscal year. The value of the electronic payment service for suppliers also increased by 14% to reach 1.1 trillion pounds, compared to about 989.8 billion pounds over the past fiscal year. The same period last fiscal year.
The minister indicated that electronic customs receipts witnessed a growth of 38%, with a value of 284.3 billion pounds in the period from July 2023 to May 2024, compared to about 205.8 billion pounds for the same period of the last fiscal year, pointing out that there is stability in electronic payment. Through multiple tax collection channels, the value of electronic tax collection transactions recorded about 613.1 billion pounds, with a growth rate of 16% over the same period of the fiscal year.In the past, there is a noticeable increase in the rates of citizens’ interest in paying government dues electronically through “Citizen Payment” in the banking sector by 38%, as the value of the collection service through “Citizen Payment” in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year reached 61.4 billion. pounds, compared to about 44.4 billion pounds. The value of the collection service via government electronic collection machines (GPOS) increased by 31%, reaching 60.8 billion pounds, compared to 46.3 billion pounds for the same period last fiscal year.
Mohamed Fouad, Head of the Electronic Payment and Collection Unit of the Ministry of Finance, said that the value of collection through the government’s electronic payment portal on the Internet during the period from July 2023 to May 2024 witnessed a growth of 78%, reaching more than one billion pounds, compared to 600 million pounds. For the same period of the last fiscal year, there is a significant expansion in electronic collection services through collection companies integrated with the government electronic payment and collection center, which achieved an increase of 51%, bringing the value of its government receipts to about 1.9 billion pounds, compared to 1.2 billion pounds. pounds for the same period of the previous fiscal year.
The head of the Electronic Payment and Collection Unit of the Ministry of Finance indicated that, given the nature of rapid technological developments, especially in the field of financial technology, and within the framework of monitoring and monitoring the operation of all digital transformation systems in the Ministry; The governance procedures for these systems are constantly being reviewed, with the addition of new procedures to enhance the governance of connectivity and integration between the government electronic payment and collection center, the electronic collection system, and between the government’s public financial information system “GFMIS” and the electronic billing system, as well as following up on the work of the accounting units to increase auditing of revenue distribution. The sum of the types and items assigned to them.
