Revenues, efficiency and taxpayer behaviour

Call for papers: 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference

7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference

September 25-26, 2025, in London, United Kingdom | Submission by May 15th, 2025

TaxDev collaborating with Government of Ghana on VAT, customs, and distributional analysis

In these videos our partners from the Revenue Policy Division of the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance explain how our joint work is helping to improve specific areas of tax policy analysis and the poli

Ghana publishes major new VAT report

Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has published a major new report – A review of Ghana’s value-added tax (VAT) system.

Ghana publishes major new VAT report

The Government of Ghana has published a major new report A review of Ghana’s value-added tax (VAT) system.

How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development

This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 4 February 2025

The Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Firms: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data

Most low-income countries lack high-frequency firm-level data to monitor the effect of economic shocks in real time.

9th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries

December 16th-17th 2024, in Zurich, Switzerland

Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies

This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues in Peru to study whether transfers to local gov

Reform or Replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024

Ethiopia publishes its first National Medium-Term Revenue Strategy

In October 2024, the Government of Ethiopia published its first National Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (NMTRS), setting out a roadmap for reform of key elements of tax policy and administration for