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
Taxes as collateral: to risk or de-risk?
Opinion and Analysis
Uncertainty still dogs Ghana’s Electronic Transfer Levy
News
Job Opportunity: Senior Communications Consultant, DIGITAX Programme
Closing date for applications: May 8th, 2022 The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) is looking to hire a…
News
Job Opportunity: Programme Manager, DIGITAX
Closing date for applications: Saturday, 30th April 2022 The International Centre for Tax and Development is seeking a Programme Manager…
News
DIGITAX working papers examine the intersection between technology, tax policies & collection methods
DIGITAX is a new ICTD research programme aimed at generating knowledge and evidence to support governments in overcoming the challenges…
News
Call for research proposals on digital financial services, digital ID, and taxation
Background The rapid expansion of mobile money and broader digital financial services (DFS) as well as the increased relevance of…
Opinion and Analysis
Implementing a systems approach for effective property taxation in Ghana
Ghanaian local governments – metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDAs) – face several challenges preventing them from raising more revenue…
News
Job Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Researcher (DIGITAX)
Closing date for applications: Sunday, 21st November 2021 The International Centre for Tax and Development is seeking a Post-Doctoral Researcher…
News
Job Opportunity: Project Research Officer (DIGITAX)
Closing date for applications: Sunday, 31st October 2021 The International Centre for Tax and Development is seeking to appoint a…
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Timezone: UTC
Virtual
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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
Virtual
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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
Virtual
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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
In person
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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