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Closing the revenue gap: Enforcing e-procurement as a complementary strategy to ensure voluntary compliance

Tax revenue to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is at a snail paste in developing countries, but in Africa, this is as if a spell cast on growth. According to the Africa Union, Africa loses in excess of $148 billion annually to corruption. This is estimated at about 25% of Africa's GDP. His study aims to employ the scientific study of human behavior in relation to motivation in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and compliance theories to advance the understanding of the behavior of individuals operating various business entities, in order to effectively and efficiently implement adaptive strategies that will close the revenue gap. The review was conducted on a wide range of secondary data and materials on relevant theories among other scholarly writings on the subject area. This paper argues that the emergence of cooperative compliance on the African continent is just another version of a normative process that does not satisfy the rational perspective of compliance, only aimed at partially attempting the problem, but not a solution to the whole. This study views cooperative compliance as another plot to fail if government does not employ CAS strategies and policies to address the root cause(s) of corruption. The fundamental argument of this paper is that corruption is not the root cause of revenue leakages in Africa. To address the root cause(s), government should focus on system thinking to advance technological growth and innovations, specifically the expansion of internet infrastructure and accessibility to meet the over 500 billion mobile subscribers in Africa, to transform the continent onto E-procurement that indirectly enforces voluntary compliance.