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Research in Brief

Do Electronic Filing and Payment Increase Tax Compliance? Evidence from Large Taxpayers in Senegal

June 2026
Léo Czajka, Awa Diouf, Fabrizio Santoro

Working Paper

Do Electronic Filing and Payment Increase Tax Compliance? Evidence from Large Taxpayers in Senegal

May 2026
Léo Czajka, Awa Diouf, Fabrizio Santoro

Research in Brief

Tracking and Taxing Cross-Border Digital Transactions: The Case of VAT in Senegal

August 2025
Awa Diouf, Hannelore Niesten

African Tax Administration Paper

Tracking and Taxing Cross-Border Digital Transactions: The Case of VAT in Senegal

August 2025
Awa Diouf, Hannelore Niesten

Partner Publication

Inter-Institutional Collaboration Dynamics in Property Tax Administration: The Experience of Senegal

December 2024
Camille Barras, Colette Nyirakamana, Marie Reine Mukazayire

Partner PublicationPolicy Brief

Challenges and Strategies for Advancing Property Registration Efforts in Senegal

December 2024
Camille Barras, Colette Nyirakamana, Marie Reine Mukazayire

Journal Article

Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries

February 2024
Anne Brockmeyer, Giulia Mascagni, Vedanth Nair, Mazhar Waseem, Miguel Almunia

African Tax Administration Paper

Data Management at the Senegalese Tax Authority: Insights from a Long-term Research Collaboration

December 2022
Léo Czajka, Florence Kondylis, Bassirou Sarr, Mattea Stein
Why tax expenditure reporting is a missing link in financing for development
24 April 2026

Why tax expenditure reporting is a missing link in financing for development

Alexandra Readhead, Agustín Redonda, Christian von Haldenwang, Giovanni Occhiali, Giulia Mascagni, Harshil Parekh
With aid budgets shrinking and debt vulnerabilities mounting, the $4 trillion governments forgo annually through exemptions, credits, and preferential rates…
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What Senegal’s VAT reforms reveal about taxing cross-border services
23 January 2026

What Senegal’s VAT reforms reveal about taxing cross-border services

Hannelore Niesten, Awa Diouf
Across Africa and beyond, governments are extending VAT to cross-border supplies of services, with Senegal a recent adopter….
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Building public support for property tax reform in senegal through sensitization and communication campaigns
8 May 2025

Building public support for property tax reform in senegal through sensitization and communication campaigns

Marie Reine Mukazayire, Colette Nyirakamana, Camille Barras

The authors would like to thank the officials of the DGID and the Treasury of Senegal, met during field research,…

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The digitalisation journey of tax administrations – Insights from the Network of Tax Organisations (NTO) Conference
13 December 2023

The digitalisation journey of tax administrations – Insights from the Network of Tax Organisations (NTO) Conference

Fabrizio Santoro
The fundamental challenge in tax digitalisation lies in shifting focus away from the mere implementation of technology. Instead, a clear…
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How do taxes affect the price of digital financial services?
13 April 2023

How do taxes affect the price of digital financial services?

Hannelore Niesten, Awa Diouf
How the interplay between DFS pricing and taxation affects the cost of DFS, and why transparency and competition are crucial…
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Developing and adopting new digital tools for property tax reform in Dakar, Senegal
3 August 2021

Developing and adopting new digital tools for property tax reform in Dakar, Senegal 

Bassirou Sarr, Justine Knebelmann, Victor Pouliquen

In June 2021, eight Senegalese tax agents based in the fiscal centre of Pikine, the country’s second largest city, generated…

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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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New interactive site on taxing tobacco in West Africa
31 May 2022

New interactive site on taxing tobacco in West Africa

Did you know cigarettes have actually become more affordable in Africa over the last four years? Find out how tobacco…
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Opportunity: Research project on property tax in Senegal
12 May 2022

Opportunity: Research project on property tax in Senegal

The Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) is planning to conduct policy-oriented research into the reform of property taxation in Senegal,…

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Understanding how lower-income countries participate in global tax negotiations
14 January 2021

Understanding how lower-income countries participate in global tax negotiations

Since 2013, the formal structure of global corporate tax policymaking at the OECD has changed. Decisions are no longer made…

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Our new resource page on tobacco taxation
3 June 2020

Our new resource page on tobacco taxation

May 31st was World No Tobacco Day. Every year, tobacco use causes more than 8 million deaths globally, and 80%…

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Completed

Assessing the impact of e-filing and e-payment in Senegal

Start date: 15/08/2023

Current

The political, institutional and bargaining dynamics of property tax reform in Dakar, Thiès and Saint-Louis, Senegal

Start date: 07/09/2022

Current

Tobacco tax reform in West Africa

Start date: 22/10/2018

Current

Using third-party data to improve tax compliance in a context of low enforcement

Start date: 01/06/2019

Completed

Bringing Property Owners into the Tax Net in Senegal

Start date: 16/05/2019

Completed

Developing Points Based Valuation for Property Taxation in Senegal and Sierra Leone

Start date: 16/11/2018

Current

Property Tax in African Secondary Cities: Insights from the cases of Kisumu (Kenya) and M’Bour (Senegal)

Start date: 15/08/2017
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