In recent years, Ethiopia has witnessed a significant rise in one particularly harmful extra-legal practice: roadblock taxation. …
In early October, I was in Cape Town for the 10th ATAF Annual Congress, where I…
Zimbabwe’s informal sector is massive. But despite its size, the sector remains poorly understood, especially when it comes to taxation. …
After completing the ICTD Research on Tax and Development course, Seid Yimam experienced a career switched, he shares more in this interview….
As interest in simplified tax grows, African countries can look at Latin America for lessons learned from the informal sector. …
Fragile contexts are home to 24% of the world’s population (1.9 billion people), and three-quarters (73%)…
Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion – broadly 2,5%…
Wealthy Africans face lower effective tax rates than average citizens, replicating a trend already demonstrated for the relative tax burden of small and large companies. This situation is disheartening. But there are immediate steps that African revenue authorities can take to address this unfairness….
There are many reasons to be anxious about the taxation of informal sectors in lower income…
Max Gallien argues for key changes to the draft text of the Financing for Development outcome document, given that dominant strategies for formalising and taxing the informal economy are often ineffective and highly regressive. …
At a recent UN side event, experts outlined how the new financing for development proposals on can be strengthened for better outcomes in four priority areas….
Tax specialists have a great deal to say about how African tax collectors could work better…
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