Digital Data Analysis: Promoting Tax Literacy And Transparency Through Online Tax Information In West Africa (Pilot Project)

Executive Summary
This Research Note is intended to guide the promotion of (semi) real time online interactions with various categories of stakeholders in the tax system in West Africa and beyond. It provides an avenue to have an effective system for creating content for a portion of the WATAF website to benefit every site visitor. The final outcome is to ensure greater tax awareness, literacy, and transparency, as well as deeper citizen engagement with the tax systems, leading to more voluntary taxpayers, advocates for accountability and transparency in tax administrations, and more objective tax educators. The intention is that visitors to WATAF website will immensely benefit from the regular bits of tax information that serve the interests of tax authorities, civil societies, development partners, policymakers and current (or future) taxpayers.