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A successful property taxation programme must incorporate a comprehensive sensitisation strategy. The community must be involved in the process, building support for the programme through government development projects. Further, it is important to secure City Council’s acknowledgement of the more difficult compliance stage, which may challenge high-profile community members who chooses not to pay their rates.

Listen to this inspiring TED talk by Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr Mayor of Freetown.

Ms. Aki-Sawyerr was elected in 2018, and improving revenue collection is a central part of her Transform Freetown agenda.

Baloosoft supports the transform agenda as our MOPTAX system helps unleash the property tax potential of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown.

How to turn your dissatisfaction into action After the devastating rebel invasion of Freetown in 1999 and the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the city, refused to be paralyzed by her frustration with the status quo. Instead, she used her anger as a catalyst for action. In this inspiring talk, she shares how she transformed...

The MOPTAX System facilitates an annual recurring process of six steps all considered essential to the successful and sustainable mobilisation of property tax revenues.

MOPTAX supports municipalities by streamlining their current administration and implementing a discovery phase aimed at systematically increasing their existing tax base. The system simplifies the assessment and valuation process by allowing various calculation models to be configured (points based, rental value, fixed value).