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Research in Brief

The Effect of the Liberian Government’s Taxation Policies on Poverty and Inequality

Working Paper

The Effect of the Liberian Government’s Taxation Policies on Poverty and Inequality

Partner Publication

A Fairer Global Tax Architecture

Research in Brief

Assessing the Equity and Redistributive Effects of Taxation Reforms in Nigeria

Photo of women of Takalafiya-Lapai village, Niger State, Nigeria
January 2023|
Blog

Mobile money tax: Is there a gender gap?

by Hannelore Niesten & Mary Abounabhan

Gender and tax: As Africa increasingly introduces specific taxes on digital financial services (DFS) such as mobile money, do DFS taxes exacerbate or reduce gender inequality?…

Journal Article

The VAT in practice: equity, enforcement, and complexity

Working Paper

Assessing the Equity and Redistributive Effects of Taxation Reforms in Nigeria

January 2021|
Blog

Open Societies, Tax, and the British Aid Programme

by Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard & Giulia Mascagni

What is the connection between taxation and more open societies that the British aid programme aims…

News
Women in a demonstration advocating for tax reform
December 2020
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…

Classroom in a school in Sierra Leone
November 2020|
Blog

The inequity of informal financing of public education in Sierra Leone

by Vanessa van den Boogaard

Though education is a core duty of the state, public education in Sierra Leone is financed…

Lego Office on Keyboard
September 2020|
Blog

How governments can use the coronavirus pandemic to build better tax systems

by Roel Dom, Anna Custers & Benjamin Holzman

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, changes that might ordinarily take a few years are now occurring in…

People advocating for Tax justice
July 2020|
Blog

Building coalitions to promote equitable taxation beyond the Covid era

by Vanessa van den Boogaard, Jason Lakin & Paolo de Renzio

This piece is co-published with the International Budget Partnership.  Since its onset, governments the world over…