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Working Paper

Forest Taxation and REDD+: An Analysis of Potential Impacts in Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone

March 2018
Stephen Spratt, Philip M. Kargbo, Emmanuel Marfo, Emmanuel Ngungoh, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen

Book

Taxation, Responsiveness and Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Tax Bargaining

September 2015
Wilson Prichard

Working Paper

Norms, Power and the Socially Embedded Realities of Market Taxation in Northern Ghana

September 2015
Wilson Prichard, Vanessa van den Boogaard
Taxing mobile money: Five critical strategies for policymakers
23 July 2024

Taxing mobile money: Five critical strategies for policymakers

Awa Diouf, Hannelore Niesten, Mary Abounabhan
Revenue authorities, policymakers, industry, and researchers met to explore how taxes on mobile money could be effectively and equitably designed….
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Taxes and fees in the informal sector shed new light on why engendering tax research matters
22 March 2024

Taxes and fees in the informal sector shed new light on why engendering tax research matters

Deanndre Chen

In low-income countries, women make up a significant portion of the informal sector. They are also concentrated in the group…

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Kenya is going digital to boost tax revenue – there are lessons to learn from other African countries
11 August 2023

Kenya is going digital to boost tax revenue – there are lessons to learn from other African countries

Celeste Scarpini, Fabrizio Santoro

Many African tax authorities have weak capacity to raise revenue. From 1990 to 2020, sub-Saharan African countries on average collected…

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ICTD’s new web portal on taxation of digital financial services in Africa
25 July 2023

ICTD’s new web portal on taxation of digital financial services in Africa

Awa Diouf, Hannelore Niesten
Across Africa, the rapid growth of digital financial services (DFS) has led to increased interest in effectively taxing these services….
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Building trust by earmarking taxes on digital financial services
6 April 2023

Building trust by earmarking taxes on digital financial services

Mary Abounabhan, Hannelore Niesten, Amrita Saha
Can earmarking provide an answer to the controversy of taxes on digital financial services such as Ghana’s e-levy? Although an…
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Ghana’s e-levy is unfair to the poor and misses its revenue target: A lesson in mobile money tax design
30 March 2023

Ghana’s e-levy is unfair to the poor and misses its revenue target: A lesson in mobile money tax design

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Michael Rogan
The levy’s effects – on Ghana’s public finances, its poor, mobile money usage –have been at the centre of intense…
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ICTD secures $1m from Founders Pledge to support collaborative research to strengthen tax administration
6 August 2026

ICTD secures $1m from Founders Pledge to support collaborative research to strengthen tax administration

Max Gallien
The International Centre for Tax and Development has secured US$1 million from Founders Pledge to fund a new three-year programme…
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New ICTD research shows uneven adoption of international tax standards by lower-income countries
29 June 2026

New ICTD research shows uneven adoption of international tax standards by lower-income countries

Martin Hearson, Frederik Heitmüller
This paper by Martin Hearson, Frederich Heitmüller and Florian Dierich, draws together findings across all seven country case studies, identifying…
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ICTD signs new partnerships for largest study of market taxation in Accra
15 April 2026

ICTD signs new partnerships for largest study of market taxation in Accra

Max Gallien, Vanessa van den Boogaard
ICTD signs three new MOUs with municipal authorities in Ghana for a project on the taxation of Accra’s markets….
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ICTD, WIEGO extend research partnership on informal sector taxation
23 July 2025

ICTD, WIEGO extend research partnership on informal sector taxation

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Michael Rogan, Max Gallien
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with global research and advocacy network…
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Taxing Smarter: How Research Collaboration is Strengthening Tax Systems in Africa
21 July 2025

Taxing Smarter: How Research Collaboration is Strengthening Tax Systems in Africa

Amidst growing fiscal pressures, rising debt service costs, and shrinking aid budgets, strengthening domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) has become an…

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ICTD launches new community of practice on informality and tax
27 May 2025

ICTD launches new community of practice on informality and tax

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien

Revenue authorities, researchers and civil society actors now have a space to map new ways for policymakers to engage with…

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Completed

Digital Payment Tax Factsheets

Start date: 01/01/2022

Current

Tobacco tax reform in West Africa

Start date: 22/10/2018

Current

The fiscal and public health impact of a change in tobacco excise taxes in Ghana

Start date: 22/11/2019

Completed

The Enigma of Central and Local Governments Relationship and the Impact on Property Tax Administration in Ghana

Start date: 20/08/2017
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