ECOWAS-led STA Joint Announcement, 20 April 2026
JOINT OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
ECOWAS-Led Simultaneous Tax Audit
Republic of Liberia & Republic of Sierra Leone
A Regional Tax Cooperation Initiative Under the ECOWAS Framework
The South Centre is supporting two of its Member States, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in implementing a pilot Simultaneous Tax Examination on Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), in partnership with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission. The pilot, which can generate potentially substantial tax revenues, will operationalize the ECOWAS Supplementary Act on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters. The pioneering pilot, potentially the first of its kind in the Global South, will develop audit capacity, generate domestic revenue, and build a model that can be scaled across other Member States of the South Centre and ECOWAS.
Read more in the press release jointly issued with ECOWAS and the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone (également disponible en français/também disponível em português):
ECOWAS-Led Simultaneous Tax Audit
Contrôle fiscal simultané mené par la CEDEAO
Auditoria fiscal simultânea liderada pela CEDEAO
This article was tagged: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Global Tax, Global Taxation, International Tax, International Tax Cooperation, International Taxation, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Centre Tax Initiative (SCTI), Tax Audit
