Research Theme
Tax and Governance
Discovering how and why increased taxation can spur statebuilding and government accountability is crucial across all countries. Combining tax and governance gives us a richer picture of how the right kinds of taxation can deliver more and better for taxpayers, and what success is contingent on. When tax and governance operate well, both local and national governments benefit.
Key Resources
Tax and Governance Library
Mobile-money taxation in East Africa: Harmonisation or laissez-faire?
Why taxation should be high on the agenda for Commonwealth leaders
Taxes as collateral: to risk or de-risk?
Uncertainty still dogs Ghana’s Electronic Transfer Levy
Tax justice from the ground up: An interview with SEATINI Uganda
In this blog, the ICTD speaks with Jane Nalunga, Executive Director of SEATINI Uganda to learn about the organisation’s quest…
Imposing Standards: Lessons from tax history about the ‘global tax deal’
G20 leaders are celebrating a new agreement to strengthen the taxation of tech firms and create a global minimum tax,…
Call for abstracts: Research colloquium on global tax governance
After the first two successful seasons of the research colloquium on global tax governance co-organised by GLOBTAXGOV and Martin Hearson…
ICTD’s ‘Taxing Africa’ book authors featured on ‘Between the Lines’ podcast
In this episode of Between the Lines, Jalia Kangave interviews Mick Moore, and Wilson Prichard who along with Odd-Helge Fjeldstad…
Dr Vanessa van den Boogaard authors best political science PhD in Canada
Photo: Dr van den Boogaard conducting fieldwork with research assistants in Sierra Leone. ICTD Research Fellow Dr Vanessa van den…
New research and resources on civil society engagement in tax reform
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have rightly been receiving increasing attention from researchers, as it is clear that they can be…
ICTD participates in World Bank Tax Conference
On September 24-25th, the World Bank held its second annual tax conference on the topic of taxing personal income and…
ICTD’s Wilson Prichard and Vanessa van den Boogaard present at the 4th High-Level Tax Policy Dialogue
On August 26-27, the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) hosted its 4th High-Level Tax Policy Dialogue in partnership with the…
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Date: 30th May 2023, 13:30 – 14:30 London time Duration: 60 minutes Language: English only There are three puzzling features of Sub-Saharan African tax systems. First, tax administrations maintain records on vast numbers of small enterprises that actually provide no
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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
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The Innovations in Tax Compliance program is launching its publication “Building Trust, Navigating Politics, and Tailoring Reforms.” The virtual event will delve into the new integrated framework and strategies for strengthening tax compliance and tax reform. Report authors will share
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