The Human Sciences Research Council and National Treasury: City Support Programme entered into a partnership in July 2021 in order to plug this gap in the availability and accessibility of spatial economic data. This helped contribute to a key breakthrough in spatial economic data for the country: the mining of administrative tax records into a Spatial Tax Panel. This was possible through the support and close collaboration of the South African Revenue Services, UNU-WIDER (who manage a Secure Data Facility for tax data at the National Treasury) and Statistics South Africa.