★ Liberia Ledger research note Liberia · FY2027 10 October 2026

The US$32 million question

The Tourism Authority's FY2027 request: the questions it puts to lawmakers, what it would require of the tourism industry, and what is at stake for Liberia.

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Cover of The US$32 million question, Liberia Ledger Research Note 02, 10 October 2026. Four figures: US$32.41 million requested for FY2027, 8.8 times the Authority's first vote; the US$3.70 million FY2026 vote, US$4.20 million after the May supplementary; 19% of it paid out by June, against 44% for government as a whole; and 11th, where the request would rank among 120 spending entities. In one paragraph: the Liberia National Tourism Authority, operating since January 2026, has asked for eight times the FY2027 allocation its own post reports.
Cover. The request in four figures and one paragraph.
Contents of the report: at a glance; 1, the request and the record behind it; 2, the big picture, one request against the whole budget; 3, seven questions for lawmakers, with four answers the Legislature could give; 4, what the request would require of the industry; 5, what is at stake for Liberia; 6, what the record supports, a phased path and its conditions; 7, method, sources and data notes; annexes A to E, from the national budget by fiscal period to the 120 spending entities of FY2026 ranked and the documents and sources; and how to read the figures.
Contents. Seven sections and five annexes, and how to read the figures.

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What the report covers

On 8 October 2026, at the FY2027 Executive Budget Hearing, the Liberia National Tourism Authority asked for US$32.41 million: 8.8 times the Authority's first vote, twice the whole Agriculture sector, and a sum that would rank it 11th among the 120 spending entities of the FY2026 budget. The report reads the request against the whole budget — every national budget since FY2014/15, the half-year the Comptroller has just closed, in which the Authority had paid out 19% of its vote, and the FY2027 projections already printed in the FY2026 book, which cut every sector. It sets out the record behind the request, seven questions for lawmakers and the four answers the Legislature could give, what the request would require of the tourism industry, what is at stake for Liberia, and what the record supports: a phased programme of about US$12 million in FY2027, released against conditions, with the statistics funded first. Every figure is sourced to a document and page in the report, its annexes or the companion workbook. The full report is available on request: write to info@liberialedger.com.

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