Your needs
Increasing our own revenue
“We depend on transfers. Our local taxation yields little, and we do not know why.”
What is happening
Your situation
Your municipality raises little in taxes and fees. Not all taxpayers are registered, markets and municipal assets bring in little, collection is done by hand. You would like to finance facilities, pay for maintenance, borrow if necessary, but your budget depends almost entirely on what comes from outside.
What you risk
- Without own revenue, facility maintenance is never funded and facilities stop.
- A weak borrowing capacity closes access to banks and to municipal financing.
- Raising rates is not the right answer: the potential lies in the tax base and in the leakages.
Our answer
What we do
We seek to increase own resources without raising rates: widen the tax base, reduce leakages, make the most of municipal assets. We register taxpayers and municipal property through geolocation, build the tax register, digitalise collection through mobile payment, train staff, then build a revenue dashboard. A share of the new revenue is allocated to facility maintenance. The size of the gain is measured municipality by municipality, never as a general claim.
In the Central African context
What you receive
Deliverables
Things delivered, not intentions.
- Geolocated census of taxpayers and municipal assets
- Digital tax register
- Collection by mobile payment
- Revenue dashboard
- Training of municipal staff
- Plan to make the most of municipal assets
Services involved
ODT structures and operates territorial programmes. XP-NOVA delivers the engineering.
Recommended first step: A discussion with your municipal treasurer and your secretary general to find where revenue is being lost before choosing a method.
Let's talk about your territory
Describe your territory and your ambition: a first response within 48 working hours.