This page is not built from the Treasury's catalogue. We searched that catalogue for passeport, passport, titre de voyage and laissez-passer. It holds no passport record at all. The figures below come from the tax code and the ordinances that amended it, read from the archived documents named at the end of this page, plus what the issuing authority publishes about itself.
What the law charges
| What | Set by | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Ordinary passport, issue, renewal or extension | Article 548 (1), General Tax Code | 110,000 FCFA |
| Laissez-passer | Article 548 (1), which contradicts itself | 25,000 or 75,000 FCFA |
| Mortuary laissez-passer | Article 548 (1), annex text only | 100,000 FCFA |
| Diplomatic or service passport | Article 548 (3), exemptions | No stamp duty |
The 110,000 is a stamp duty, a tax. It is not a service charge, and no part of it is discretionary.
It was 75,000 FCFA until 30 June 2021. Ordinance No. 2021/003 of 7 June 2021, which amended the 2021 Finance Law, rewrote article 548 to read "issuance, renewal and extension of ordinary passports: 110 000 CFAF". We read that line on the certified true copy filed by the Presidency. Parliament ratified the ordinance by Law No. 2021/016 of 9 July 2021. The new rate applied from 1 July 2021.
Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaze defended the increase before the National Assembly's finance committee on 18 June 2021. His department's account of that session says the rise covers what the contractor now spends to produce the document, because the State no longer pays for it: "ce n'est plus l'Etat qui dépense, c'est le prestataire qui dépense son argent".
Where the 110,000 goes
Ordinance No. 2024/001 of 20 June 2024 splits the proceeds. It is the only place we have found the split written down.
| Who | Share | Of 110,000 FCFA |
|---|---|---|
| The contractor | 82.40% | 90,640 FCFA |
| The Treasury | 11.24% | 12,364 FCFA |
| The administration | 6.36% | 6,996 FCFA |
Four fifths of what you pay for a passport is the contractor's revenue. That is the fact behind the Minister's 2021 sentence, and it is also why so many pages describe the passport fee as a service charge. It is still a tax. The law calls it a stamp duty, the contractor is paid out of it, and you cannot pay less by declining the service.
The police delegation publishes 75,000
The Délégation Générale à la Sûreté Nationale issues the passport. Its own website, read on 21 October 2026, says this on its passport page:
Sa délivrance donne lieu à l'acquittement des droits de timbre fixés par la loi de finances (75.000 frs). Outre ces droits de timbre, le demandeur devra prévoir la somme de 2000 frs pour les photos et 1000 frs pour le timbre de la demande de passeport.
Three things follow from that sentence. The issuing authority publishes 75,000 FCFA, which is the rate that was abolished on 30 June 2021. It points at the Finance Law for its authority, and the Finance Law has said 110,000 for five years. And it adds two costs nobody else mentions: 2,000 FCFA for photographs and 1,000 FCFA for the stamp on the application form itself.
We cannot date that page. It carries no publication date and no revision date.
So when a commercial site publishes 75,000, it is not inventing the number. It is copying the police. The best known of them, lefisk.cm, published 75,000 on 18 January 2026 and called it an "AUGENTIC service fee" set by the Sûreté Nationale. The amount matches the DGSN page. The explanation does not match anything.
The 155,000 claim of January 2026
On 17 January 2026 Camer.be reported, under Toto Jacques, that the passport would cost 155,000 FCFA instead of 110,000, an increase of 45,000. AllAfrica carried it. It spread.
The article gives no breakdown of the 155,000 and names no instrument. What it describes is a new condition rather than a new price: since 1 January 2026 a passport application requires an attestation de conformité fiscale, a tax compliance certificate.
The Ministry of Finance answered in the same month, on its official accounts: the price of the biometric passport remains 110,000 FCFA and the 2026 Finance Law provides for no increase. Digital Business Africa reported the denial on 22 January 2026. L'Economie checked the budget papers themselves, the finance bill No. 2091/PJL/AN and the Ministry circular No. 0001877/C/MINFI of 31 December 2025, and found no provision creating a 155,000 rate.
We looked too. The 2026 Finance Law is Law No. 2025/012 of 17 December 2025. The 2026 edition of the tax code carries article 548 at 110,000 in both of the places it prints it. There is no 155,000 anywhere in it.
What we cannot tell you is what the tax compliance certificate costs, or whether obtaining one costs anything at all. We have found no published tariff for it. Until we do, this page carries no figure for it, and you should treat any site that gives you one as unsourced.
The tax code disagrees with itself
The 2026 edition of the General Tax Code prints articles 548 and 549 twice, and the two versions are not the same.
The body of the volume, at pages 163 and 164, sets the laissez-passer at 25,000 FCFA and a long stay visa at 150,000 FCFA for the normal rate. The annex, at pages 357 to 359, sets the ordinary laissez-passer at 75,000 FCFA, adds a mortuary laissez-passer at 100,000 FCFA, and sets the long stay visa at 200,000 FCFA.
The annex is the June 2024 ordinance reproduced. The body is the 2023 Finance Law, Law No. 2022/020 of 27 December 2022, which we hold and checked line by line against it. Neither printing is marked as superseded.
The passport is the one line in this part of the code that survives the comparison. 110,000 FCFA in the body, 110,000 FCFA in the annex. Everything around it has two values.
Two further defects in the same volume, because they bear on how much weight the document can carry. The annex heading is printed as "ORDONNANCE DU JUIN 2024", with no number and no day. And it lists the laissez-passer twice as "ordinaire", at 75,000 and at 100,000, where the ordinance it is copying says the second is "mortuaire".
What this page does not tell you
What a counter will charge. What the photographs cost outside the DGSN's 2,000 figure. What an agent charges to queue for you. How long it takes: the Treasury catalogue publishes a processing time for eight of its 405 services, which is not enough to promise anything, so we publish none.
Sources
Every document below was read on 21 October 2026 unless another date is given.
- General Tax Code, 2026 editionour copy, published by the tax administration at impots.cm. Article 548 at pages 163 and 164, and again at pages 357 to 359. Archived in full in this repository.
- Ordinance No. 2021/003 of 7 June 2021 amending Law No. 2020/018 of 17 December 2020, Finance Law for 2021. Certified true copy filed at prc.cm, document 8938. Section Thirteen (a) amends section 548. Read page by page.
- Law No. 2021/016 of 9 July 2021 ratifying that ordinance, cited in the preamble of Ordinance No. 2021/004our copy of 29 December 2021, which we hold.
- Ordinance No. 2024/001 of 20 June 2024 amending Law No. 2023/019 of 19 December 2023our copy, Finance Law for 2024. Filed at prc.cm. Article thirty-seventh (ter) carries the revenue split.
- Law No. 2025/012 of 17 December 2025, Finance Law for 2026.
- Ministry of Finance, minfi.gov.cm, account of the 18 June 2021 parliamentary session on the increase.
- Délégation Générale à la Sûreté Nationale, dgsn.cm, passport page. The page served its content with an HTTP 500 status on the day we read it.
- Digital Business Africa, 22 January 2026, on the Ministry's denial.
- L'Economie, fact check on the 2026 Finance Law and the 155,000 claim.
- Camer.be via AllAfrica, 17 January 2026, for the 155,000 claim itself.
- lefisk.cm, 18 January 2026, for the 75,000 claim. An aggregator, not an authority.
There is no online Journal Officiel for Cameroon. prc.cm is the de facto gazette, and it is where the ordinances above are filed.
If a figure here is wrong, tell us. The method is written out at how we verify.
Page updated 21 October 2026