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
Webinar
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Timezone: Europe/London
Virtual
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Timezone: Europe/London
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, cash-strapped governments across Africa will be looking for ways to fill revenue gaps. Having long faced challenges in taxing large multinational corporations and significant informal economic activities, they may be tempted to raise