Revenues, efficiency and taxpayer behaviour

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.

9th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries

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

How Rwanda embedded tax expenditure reporting: 7 key lessons for practitioners

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 29 September 2024

Presentation: Taxing the rich

On Tuesday 3rd September 2024, TaxDev researcher Hazel Granger joined an expert panel to discuss how to tax the super-rich.

Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development publishes tax expenditure report for 2022/23

In August 2024 the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) published its tax expenditure report for the fiscal year 2022/23.

Look beyond the tampon tax: alternative solutions to close gender gaps

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 10 July 2024

The problem with tax potential estimates – key considerations to develop sustainable tax systems

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 3 June 2024