Programme
DIGITAX Research Programme
The DIGITAX programme generated knowledge and evidence as well as delivered advice and support to governments and other stakeholders on overcoming challenges and leveraging opportunities at the interface of digital financial services (DFS), digital IDs, and tax.
Our robust, relevant, and cutting-edge research looked at:
• the taxation of mobile money and other DFS, and;
• the digitalisation of tax systems across lower-income countries, with a particular focus on Africa.
DIGITAX, which ran from 2020 to 2024, was funded by the Gates Foundation.
Key Resources
Opinion and Analysis
How digital public infrastructure could transform tax administration in Africa
News
ICTD launches DFS TaxMap: A comprehensive visualisation tool on taxation of digital financial services in Africa
Publication
Taxing Mobile Money in Africa: Risk and Reward
DIGITAX Research Programme Library
Opinion and Analysis
Unpacking Zambia’s proposed mobile money levy: Lessons and considerations
Opinion and Analysis
Technology and taxation: Unveiling a new world of opportunities but also challenges, at international socioeconomics conference
Opinion and Analysis
Kenya is going digital to boost tax revenue – there are lessons to learn from other African countries
Many African tax authorities have weak capacity to raise revenue. From 1990 to 2020, sub-Saharan African countries on average collected…
Media coverage
Celeste Scarpini and Fabrizio Santoro pen a piece in ‘The Conversation’
Opinion and Analysis
ICTD’s new web portal on taxation of digital financial services in Africa
News
ICTD launches DFS TaxMap: A comprehensive visualisation tool on taxation of digital financial services in Africa
Opinion and Analysis
Electronic tax administration: Insights from Rwanda where manual practices persist
News
Call for Research Consultants, DIGITAX Programme
The International Centre for Tax and Development (Institute of Development Studies) is seeking 2 consultants for the DIGITAX research programme….
Opinion and Analysis
The promise and limitations of information technology for tax mobilisation
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Timezone: UTC
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Timezone: Europe/London
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Timezone: Europe/London
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Timezone: Europe/London
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Timezone: Europe/London
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Timezone: Africa/Kigali
We are delighted to contribute to the 10th Annual Conference of the Economic Policy Research Network, Rwanda, which this year has been organised around the theme Boosting Economic Resilience to Economic Shocks. ICTD Research Director, Giulia Mascagni, has given welcome
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Timezone: UTC
The global digital public infrastructure (DPI) agenda is substantially informed by experiences from the Global North and South Asia. Africa has its own vast array of contributions to add to the debate. In a historic move, under India’s G20 Presidency
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Timezone: Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Co-hosted by Tanzania Revenue Authority, the International Growth Centre (IGC), and REPOA, the inaugural International Conference on Tax for Growth aims to “bring together world-leading researchers and policymakers to discuss questions relating to enhancing domestic resource mobilisation and strengthening tax
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Timezone: Africa/Accra
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Timezone: Europe/London
At a time when many African countries are facing strong fiscal pressures, the rapidly growing digital financial services sector – in particular mobile money – is a natural source to which some have turned in search of tax revenue. But
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Timezone: Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Virtual
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Timezone: Europe/London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIT8OXnAYmA&ab_channel=InternationalCentreforTaxandDevelopment DIGITAX is delighted to announce the second webinar in DIGITAX’s e-levy series ‘The devil in the detail: Examining Ghana’s new e-levy from a policy design perspective’. There has been much debate around the implications of the e-levy since it