All I'm getting from this is that the administration there needs to do a much better job collecting taxes, there's widespread corruption at every level in government with officials taking way too much money "off the table" and not reinvesting it, or a combination of both. The government's budget should be about 20-30% of the GDP depending on the tax rate. I just saw Puntland's budget for 2021 and these numbers aren't adding up. 340M is only 6.8% of 5B. This is obviously way easier said than done but from what I've seen nearly all the payments in Somalia are done through mobile phones. It can't be that hard to pass legislation mandating companies like Hormuud and Dahabshil to produce records of every citizen's mobile payments and use the data to impose taxes. Let me know your thoughts/solutions.