U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisions have triggered significant shifts in international politics with ripple effects extending…
The e-levy’s intense politicisation and complex design made it an interesting case of a wider trend of mobile money taxes in the region. We learned more about the e-levy’s impact on informal sector workers in Accra, knowledge and sentiments, registered merchant exemptions and mobile money usage….
As policymakers gather to discuss gender and tax at the UN today, this blog draws on research to call for moving beyond a narrow focus on gender bias in tax policy toward a broader, more effective feminist fiscal approach to advance gender equality. …
Last month’s organizational session was not a mundane discussion of practical organizational matters. After a new bureau was elected and the dust following the dramatic exit of the United States from the negotiations had settled, most of the energy was spent on a single topic: reaching a compromise on how the negotiating committee would reach its decisions….
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…
ICTD research on gender and tax aims to accelerate the shift in international policy debates in…
Imagine living in a country where non-state actors provide most basic services instead of the state,…
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. …
Wilson Prichard argues that property taxes, as the backbone of local government finances, should be explicitly included in the Financing for Development outcome document….
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….
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