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 research proposals: Tax and civil society (Closed)
The Call for Proposals for research projects on civil society is currently closed. We aim to open a new call…
Better Tax initiative launched in Nigeria
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) launched the Better Tax initiative on May 15th in Lagos. The initiative seeks to…
ICTD Annual Meeting in Kigali: “What Next for Tax Research in Africa?”
ICTD Welcomes New Research Proposals (Call now closed)
The ICTD is now in a position to fund new research proposals on tax and development. We welcome all proposals…
ICTD researchers to speak at global tax conference at the United Nations
Two members of our team have been invited to speak at the First Global Conference of the Platform for Collaboration…
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On June 15th, the ICTD’s founder and Senior Fellow Professor Mick Moore (pictured on the left) will be giving a webinar in a new series hosted by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He will
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Join the final Toktok Bilong Strongim Nesen discussion series event for 2019 in a fascinating public discussion themed ‘Billions from Betel Nut? Taxation, Growth and Governance’. It will be held at the University of Papua New Guinea on Thursday 21
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The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy is hosting a launch of our book Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development. The event will be held on Tuesday September 25th from 6:00 – 8:00pm in the Round Room on
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The Royal African Society is hosting a launch of our newly published book Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development, the latest in the African Arguments Series. The event will be held at SOAS in London. Speakers: Mick Moore, Professorial Fellow,
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