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Promoting Tax Bargains in Uganda and Beyond: The Importance of Civil Society and Parliamentarians
While developing countries have acknowledged the importance of domestic resource mobilization in development, in practice, not enough attention is being
Row over UN tax body is a needless distraction for developing nations
When an international development conference in Addis Ababa almost collapsed last week, the confrontation emerged from an obscure and unlikely
Making VAT more visible can be an efficient tool in building a tax-paying culture
A new study shows that Value-Added-Tax can be used to educate people outside the reach of direct income taxation on
The Sustainable Development Goals – Reject Tax Targeting
There is good news in the agenda for the Third Financing for Development Conference to be held in Addis Ababa
New UNCTAD Paper on Corporate Tax in Developing Countries
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has published a major new study on corporate tax, which specifically aims
ICTD Supports New Project On Conflict And Taxation In Congo
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) is supporting two new and important projects in the Democratic Republic of
How Property Tax Would Benefit Africa
New publication by Nara Monkam and Mick Moore The developmental benefits of governments taxing citizens, even for modest sums, are
Governing Lagos: The Politics of Reform in Nigeria’s Megacity
An excellent new study shows how reforming Governors of Lagos State, Nigeria constructed a new social contract around taxation In fifteen years,
Newer and Better? Reflections on a new dataset on taxation and development
It is said that nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Yet, we
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