At a glance
Nigeria is undertaking the most ambitious overhaul of its fiscal and tax system in a generation — consolidating 60+ taxes, creating a national revenue service, and targeting a near-doubling of the tax-to-GDP ratio. The Presidential Committee leading that work, chaired by Taiwo Oyedele, needed a credible, authoritative digital home: somewhere citizens, advisers, businesses and the press could understand the reforms, follow the news, access primary documents, and feed input back to the Committee.
Inventrium designed and built fiscalreforms.ng — a ~19-page institutional platform with a bespoke Personal Income Tax calculator, a CMS-driven newsroom, a downloadable resource centre, and a consistent, trustworthy visual system — turning a complex national reform agenda into a clear, navigable public resource.
We gave a landmark national reform programme a digital home worthy of its mandate — clear enough for citizens, credible enough for stakeholders, and structured enough to grow with the reforms.
The brief
The Committee was established by President Bola Tinubu to redesign Nigeria’s fiscal system across three pillars — revenue mobilisation, quality of government spending, and sustainable debt management. Its remit is sweeping: consolidate Nigeria’s 60+ taxes and levies toward a single-digit regime, establish the Nigeria Revenue Service, and lift the tax-to-GDP ratio from roughly 10% toward 18% or more.
A reform programme of this scale lives or dies on public understanding and trust. Tax change touches every citizen and every business, and in that environment misinformation spreads quickly. The Committee needed an official platform that could:
- Serve as the single source of truth for the reform agenda — its mandate, principles, structure and progress.
- Make dense policy accessible to non-specialists without diluting it for professionals.
- Publish news and primary documents (bills, acts, FAQs, reports) as the reforms moved.
- Open a two-way channel for stakeholder input and public enquiry.
- Project the institutional authority appropriate to a Presidential committee.
Objectives
- Establish credibility and authority — a visual identity and information architecture that reads as official, national and trustworthy.
- Make the reforms understandable — translate a multi-pillar policy programme into a clear page hierarchy any visitor can navigate.
- Inform and engage citizens directly — live news, a practical tax tool, and a clear way to be heard.
- Centralise the evidence base — one resource centre for every key document, FAQ and report.
- Enable self-service publishing — let the secretariat post news without a developer in the loop.
- Build for performance, SEO and longevity — fast, discoverable, and structured to grow with the agenda.
What we did
A trustworthy visual system
We built a deep-green and golden-yellow identity (anchored on #1B7339 /#0F5132 with a #FACC15 accent) on the Inter typeface — institutional, calm and authoritative, distinct from the generic blues of most government sites. A two-row navigation header, consistent section framing, and disciplined typography carry the same “official record” tone across every page.
A clear, deep information architecture
The reform agenda was mapped to a ~19-page structure that mirrors how the Committee actually works:
- Mandate & foundation — About, Terms of Reference, Guiding Principles, Statement of Purpose, Key Challenges, Deliverables & Outcomes.
- Structure & people — Subcommittees (six, across the three pillars), Composition (the 36-member board), Observers & Partners, Secretariat Services.
- Participation & transparency — Stakeholders, Implementation, News, Resources, Contact, FAQ, Privacy.
Every page carries consistent contextual navigation — an icon-led “explore” row and a related-resources card set — so visitors always have an obvious next step, and the depth of the site never feels like a maze.
A bespoke Personal Income Tax (PIT) estimator
The main citizen-facing tool is an interactive estimator. A user enters their income and the tool shows an estimated annual personal income tax with the bracket-by-bracket breakdown under the Personal Income Tax Act. It turns an abstract policy question (“how will the new rates affect me?”) into a concrete figure a non-specialist can read. It is an educational estimate, not tax advice or an official assessment, and we label it that way on the page. See the governance boundary below for how the figures stay tied to the legislation in force.
A self-service newsroom
News is powered by Sanity CMS, so the secretariat publishes updates — gazetted acts, new exemptions, capacity-building programmes — without touching code. The homepage surfaces the latest items; a paginated news archive handles the back-catalogue, with caching tuned for freshness without hammering the CMS.
A centralised resource centre
A single, well-structured Resources hub presents 10+ primary documents — the gazetted Tax Reform Acts, FAQs on the bills, the NESG taxpayer-perception report, free-zone guidance and more — each with title, summary, date and link, so journalists and professionals find the source material in one place.
Structured data tables & engagement channels
Dense reference content was made legible with purpose-built tables — the six subcommittees with their terms of reference and deliverables, and the 37 stakeholder categories. Engagement runs through a contact form, a persistent WhatsApp action button, a stakeholder-input submission route, and links to all six of the Committee’s social channels.
Engineering for performance, SEO & maintainability
The site was built on Inventrium’s modular, section-based Next.js platform — 60+ reusable section components assembled per page — which made it fast to build, consistent to maintain, and cheap to extend. We added per-page metadata, BreadcrumbListstructured data (JSON-LD), an H1 on every page, and canonical handling for articles, and we stripped the legacy WordPress placeholder assets dragging the old site down.
Delivered and verified
- A ~19-page institutional platform covering the Committee’s mandate, structure, guiding principles and progress.
- A Personal Income Tax estimator that shows a bracket-by-bracket calculation under the Personal Income Tax Act, built as a public educational tool.
- A Sanity-powered newsroom the secretariat publishes to on its own, without a developer in the loop.
- A single resource centre consolidating 10+ primary documents and the FAQs in one place.
- Engagement routes wired in: a contact form, a persistent WhatsApp action button, a stakeholder-input submission route, and links to the Committee’s social channels.
- Clean SEO and BreadcrumbList structured data, strong build-time performance, and a reusable component system that ships new pages quickly.
What the Committee approved: the information architecture and the Personal Income Tax estimator design were signed off before we built them.
How to judge the result
What we can show is the delivered platform: the pages, the estimator, the CMS newsroom, the resource centre and the engagement routes. A public-information site answers two questions. Was the tool delivered? Did it help people understand the reforms? This page answers the first. The Committee’s own analytics answer the second, through estimator use and how people move through the explainers.
A reference for this engagement can be provided to a serious buyer, with the client’s permission.
Calculation governance and public-information boundary
A tax figure on an official site carries real weight, so we are explicit about what the estimator is and is not. It gives an educational estimate to help a citizen understand the reforms. It is not tax advice, not an official assessment, and not a substitute for the legislation or a qualified adviser. Any estimate depends on the assumptions entered and on the source legislation and rates in force at a given effective date, and those figures change as the law changes. The right measures to report are usage of the tool and whether its assumptions and rates are current against the governing Act, kept separate from any claim about how well the public understands the reforms.
What it means
For citizens: the reforms are easier to follow. A taxpayer can read the mandate in plain language, follow the news, and use the estimator to get a sense of what the changes could mean for them, treating the result as an educational estimate rather than a final figure.
For the Committee: a credible digital footprint that matches the seriousness of its mandate, plus the independence to keep it current: one official place to explain the agenda, publish primary documents, and keep a record of its work.
For stakeholders, press and professionals: a one-stop reference, with primary documents, FAQs, structure and contacts gathered in a single, well-organised place instead of scattered across sources.
Strategically: the site gives the reform programme a single official home, built on a modular platform so it can grow alongside the reforms rather than needing to be rebuilt as they advance.
Why it matters for Inventrium
This engagement demonstrates our ability to take on a high-stakes, high-visibility national brief — translating complex subject matter into clear public communication, delivering bespoke interactive tools, standing up a maintainable CMS workflow, and shipping an authoritative, performant, SEO-sound platform on a modern stack. It is a flagship example of turning a serious institutional mandate into a serious digital product.