Devex quotes Giovanni Occhiali on improving African tax systems

ICTD Research Fellow Giovanni Occhiali was cited in a Devex article on what it takes to raise domestic revenue more effectively across African countries, in the context of declining aid.

It reads in part: “Giovanni Occhiali … has spent years studying how these gaps play out in practice. African systems, he tells [the reporter], are ‘working nowhere near as progressively as they should’ — and the revenue left on the table from unenforced laws against high earners dwarfs losses in almost any other area.”

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