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Tobacco use causes more than 8 million deaths globally each year, with around 80% of the world’s smokers living in low- and middle-income countries. Increasing taxes on tobacco reduces tobacco consumption and improves negative health impacts, while also raising government revenues. However, as a policy tool, tobacco tax is widely underutilised, particularly across Africa.
The research colloquium on global tax governance co-organised by GLOBTAXGOV and the ICTD goes into its fourth season! We are inviting new submissions of abstracts to discuss early-stage original research on global tax governance from various perspectives. The topic Over the last decade, international and regional organisations, in addition to myriad non-state actors, have intensified…
Closing date for applications 31/07/2022,11:59 pm EST Based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) was launched in September 2021 to develop policy-relevant research and tools to help local governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia collect more local revenue, more equitably and fairly, and in…
The ICTD is pleased to share new learning products from the Tax and Gender Learning Journey, produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Curated by the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) team, a number of ICTD publications have been referenced or added as key resources. Resources Available: Download a new resource pack…
Introduced in May 2022, Ghana’s e-levy is a 1.5 per cent tax on the transfer amount of electronic transactions. The objective is to improve tax revenues by tapping into fast-growing digital financial services (DFS). However, many exemptions are applied to the tax design. A daily and cumulative exemption is fixed at 100 Ghanaian cedis for…
Since the pioneering mobile money service M-PESA was launched in Kenya in 2007, helping to drive impressive gains in financial inclusion, mobile money has been widely seen as a new engine for global development. But since these services also tend to be engines of profit, governments in Africa are increasingly eyeing mobile money and other…
