(Business in Cameroon) - For several days in Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, young people wearing “Your property tax filing served at home” have been buzzing about neighbourhoods to serve homeowners their property tax filing forms. The door-to-door effort will last two months and is being driven by Cameroon’s tax administration with the support of mayors’ offices.

Through this initiative, which is expected to be carried out across the country, the Tax Directorate of the Ministry of Finance plans to raise at least 3.5 billion FCFA in property taxes per annum instead of the usual 2 billion FCFA.

With the recent agreement signed with the Orange and MTN mobile phone companies to facilitate property tax payment via cellular phones, Cameroon has just added another weapon to the arsenal of measures it has put in place for tax collection.