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) calculator
The standout citizen-facing tool: an interactive calculator that estimates a user’s annual personal income tax and shows the bracket-by-bracket breakdown under the Personal Income Tax Act. It turns an abstract policy debate (“how will the new rates affect me?”) into a concrete, personal answer — exactly the kind of utility that earns repeat visits and shares.
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.
What was achieved
- A complete, authoritative digital institution — ~19 interlinked pages covering the full mandate, structure, principles and progress of the Committee.
- A genuinely useful public tool — the PIT calculator gives ordinary Nigerians a direct, personal way to understand the reforms.
- A living newsroom — the secretariat publishes reform news independently and in real time, keeping the public ahead of misinformation.
- A single, credible evidence base — every key document and FAQ consolidated into one resource centre.
- Open two-way engagement — contact, WhatsApp, stakeholder-input and social channels turn an announcement page into a participation platform.
- A discoverable, fast, future-proof foundation — clean SEO and structured data, strong performance, and a component system that ships new pages quickly.
Impact
For citizens: the reforms became understandable. A taxpayer can read the mandate in plain language, follow the news, and use the calculator to see what the changes mean for their own pocket — replacing rumour with a primary, official source.
For the Committee: a credible digital footprint that matches the seriousness of its mandate, plus the operational independence to keep it current — a trusted channel to shape the narrative around one of Nigeria’s most scrutinised reform programmes, and a transparent record of its work.
For stakeholders, press and professionals: a one-stop, authoritative reference — primary documents, FAQs, structure and contacts in a single, well-organised place — reducing friction and raising the quality of public debate.
Strategically: the site has become part of the reform infrastructure itself — the canonical place the agenda is explained, evidenced and tracked. Built on a modular platform, it is positioned to 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.