ICTD CEO Wilson Prichard’s blog “Freetown just implemented a new tax system that could quintuple revenue” co-authored with Abou Bakarr Kamara and Niccoló Meriggi was published as a top story on African Arguments. It was also republished to AllAfrica.
ICTD Research Fellow Mick Moore’s op-ed on Sri Lanka’s property tax system, which, he argues, is largely underperforming, was published in two local media outlets (see here and here).
“[P]roperty taxes are one of the most equitable ways of raising government revenue. People with more income and wealth live in larger houses and own more property,” he said.
“Let us tax them in proportion to the value of their properties, but exempt the poorest half of the population, whose houses anyway have such low values that their property tax assessments are not worth collecting,” Moore added.
DailyFT featured ICTD Senior Research Fellow Mick Moore’s recent paper, published by Verité Research, on ways to reform Sri Lanka’s property tax system to make it more effective, efficient, and fair.
The article reads in part: “’The key to unlocking change lies in the valuation system,’ [Moore] writes, adding that digital valuation ‘provides an accessible, low-cost method for breaking the current systemic logjam.'”
It was also quoted in a Daily Online Mirror report.
The Local Government Revenue Iniatiative (LoGRI) inaugural conference on “Building Progressive and Equitable Property Tax Systems in Lower-Income Countries” received coverage in a number of Kenyan media outlets in June. Highlights include: