Challenges and Opportunities Administration Challenges Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs • Public services and their efficiency have an important impact on the country economic and social aspects of living. Thus, it is very important to provide these services in an integrated, transparent and secure manner so that the Moroccan society can be gradually transformed into an information society, thanks to IT and in respect to the needs and expectations of the citizens and compagnies. • In Morocco, the public sector expenditures represent a significant portion of the budget of the State. The public sector will certainly achieve important profits in terms of effectiveness and effficiency as a result of the implementation of E-government services via simplified and automated information processing. • Therefore, for instance, the online Tax declaration for compagnies will allow the Moroccan State to achieve productivity gains by using simplified collection and automated information processing. In counterpart, it will allow compagnies and their partners to considerably save time by accessing information that have been already filed while being assisted with the online declaration process. 16 D i g i t a l M o r o c c o The National Strategy for Information Society and Digital Economy - 2009-2013