Liberia, Sept. 17 -- Monrovia- At a customs desk in Monrovia, a clerk stamps another form before 9 a.m. In a mining camp outside Kokoyah, a payroll officer wires a wage tax remittance she's processed a hundred times before. In a market stall along Broad Street, a vendor counts out change for a small business tax she's paid every quarter for six years. None of them made headlines this week. All of them, in aggregate, did.

By Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

As of Wednesday morning, September 16, 2026, the Liberia Revenue Authority confirmed that the country's domestic revenue collection had crossed US$1,005,638,048.43 - the first time in Liberia's history that figure has read ten digits before the decimal point.

It ...