La numérisation croissante des économies africaines au cours de la dernière décennie et la diffusion de l’argent mobile et des services financiers numériques (SFN) présentent des opportunités et des défis pour les administrations fiscales en Afrique. En principe, l’utilisation des technologies numériques et le recours accru aux SFN permettent d’accéder à de nouvelles données numérisées, d’accroître la transparence et d’améliorer l’expérience des contribuables. Cependant, des études montrent que les administrations fiscales sont confrontées à d’importants défis quant à la meilleure façon de développer leur capacité à utiliser les données numérisées et à réaligner leurs opérations et leurs compétences sur les nouveaux modèles d’exploitation numérisés.
Dorothy Kang’oro is an international tax lawyer and managing partner of Afrilaw, a boutique tax and legal firm headquartered in South Africa. She holds an Advanced Master’s in international tax law from the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are digital transformation, artificial intelligence, tax and development, with a focus on how technological innovations can improve tax administration and management.
Fidèle Ngerero is an international taxation specialist based in Rwanda. Formerly a senior official with the Rwanda Revenue Authority, he holds a Master’s in Business Administration from STES-Rwanda and a Masters in Finance from Liège University. His research interests include public finance and taxation, with a focus on tax administrations’ performance enhancement and revenue mobilisation. He has provided research support to Rwanda Revenue Authority’s efforts to combat tax evasion, fraud and smuggling in customs and VAT, and abuse of investment incentives.
Ignatius Odongo is a post-doctoral research associate at Regenesys Business School (South Africa), where he also works as an adjunct research supervisor and external examiner. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship from Monarch Business School, Switzerland and has a Master’s in Practicing Management. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Marketing Management from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Marketing. Dr Odongo is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. His research interests include socio-economic development, entrepreneurship development, public health, public policy and governance.
Citation: Kang’oro, D.; Ngerero, F. and Odongo, I. (2024) Using Digital Technologies to Improve Tax Collection – the Case of Togo, ICTD Research in Brief 105, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/ICTD.2024.014
