Without money, Freetown City Council cannot provide services to the people of Freetown. Freetown’s own-source revenue is very low:
There has historically been a very low compliance rate for the key sources of revenue:
As a result, one of the key targets and initiatives within the Transform Freetown plan is to reform the property tax and business licensing system to make it fairer and to increase compliance: for more detail see here. This reform and the extensive data collection which underpins it will be completed by end of 2019 and demands on the basis of the new system will be issued early 2020.
During the first 100 days, however, significant progress was already made:
The City Council also carried out significant internal reviews to increase its efficiency and its ability to use its own assets to increase its own-source revenue.
