ABIDJAN, March 15 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast collected around 3.2 trillion CFA francs ($5.27 billion) in taxes in 2022, up 12.5% from around 2.8 trillion CFA francs in 2021, said a statement by the tax authority sent to Reuters on Wednesday.
It added that the forecast of tax collection for 2023 was around 3.7 trillion CFA francs ($6.09 billion).
Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, accounts for around 40% of the combined GDP of the eight-nation West African CFA franc currency zone. ($1 = 607.5000 CFA francs) (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Editing by Sofia Christensen and Sandra Maler)
