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March 2019|
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What Nigerians really think about tax

by Neil McCulloch & Tom Moerenhout

Nigeria’s performance on collected taxes is poor. Non-oil revenue in the country is around 3-4 percent…
March 2019|
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Targets for Equity-Enhancing Tax Advocacy

by Wilson Prichard

Recent years have seen surging international interest in strengthening tax collection in order to finance national…
Protest for MPs to pay their taxes in Uganda
December 2018|
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Taxing Africa: Power, Politics, and Public Participation

by Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard & Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

Over the past decade, international attention has increasingly focused on the potential contribution of taxation to…
Trader selling cowpea at Oje market, Ibadan
August 2018|
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Tax Justice – How to integrate local experiences into an international campaign?

by Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)

What does tax justice mean at the local level, and how can the experiences of informal market traders be linked with broader international campaigns? This blog draws out insights from ActionAid’s experience of incorporating the demands of market traders in Nigeria into its international tax justice campaign….
July 2018|
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Cash on delivery for domestic resource mobilisation? Three key challenges

by Mick Moore & Wilson Prichard

Nancy Lee from the Centre for Global Development (CGD) recently published a piece arguing for a…
July 2018|
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The Land Use Charge controversy in Lagos: What lessons to learn?

by Tom Goodfellow, Bukola Bolarinwa & Olly Owen

Since the turn of the millennium, the Lagos State government has made no secret of its…
tax and inequality
May 2018|
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Three wealth tax add-ons developing countries should consider

by Jason Oh & Eric Zolt

Interest in wealth taxes has spiked recently due to disclosures of tax-haven abuses by the ultra-wealthy…
Nigeria blog chart
September 2016|
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How to fix Nigeria? Seven Key Issues

by Oluseun Onigbinde

A secure nation On a visit to Kigali, a lady extolled their army and why they…
ICTD panel pic 50th
July 2016|
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Give and you shall receive? Taxation and fiscal contracts in Africa

by Rhiannon McCluskey

Last week, the Institute of Development Studies hosted its 50th anniversary conference titled “States, Markets and…
Promoting Tax Bargains in Uganda and Beyond: The Importance of Civil Society and Parliamentarians
July 2015|
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Promoting Tax Bargains in Uganda and Beyond: The Importance of Civil Society and Parliamentarians

by Jalia Kangave

While developing countries have acknowledged the importance of domestic resource mobilization in development, in practice, not…
Making VAT more visible can be an efficient tool in building a tax-paying culture
June 2015|
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Making VAT more visible can be an efficient tool in building a tax-paying culture

A new study shows that Value-Added-Tax can be used to educate people outside the reach of…
April 2015|
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The Sustainable Development Goals – Reject Tax Targeting

by Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Nora Lustig, Richard Bird, Nancy Birdsall & Richard Manning

There is good news in the agenda for the Third Financing for Development Conference to be held in…