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The Global Dataset on Armed Group Taxation team (from left to right): Diego Sandova, Tanya Bandula-Irwin (ICTD), Max Gallien (IDS and ICTD), Vanessa van den Boogaard (ICTD), Florian Weigand (Centre on Armed Groups), Ashley Jackson (Centre on Armed Groups).
April 2025
Launch of new project on armed group taxation

Hosted by the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), in partnership with the…
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March 2025
Unlocking the Power of Sex-Disaggregated Administrative Tax Data: Insights from the Latest CoPGT Meeting

How do we improve the collection and use of administrative tax data to better serve both…
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March 2025
How ICTD research is shifting the debate on gender and tax

According to the World Economic Forum, it will take until 2158 to reach full gender parity at the…
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February 2025
ICTD launches new collaborative project exploring tax policy in Ghana’s informal sector

Multi-stakeholder event in Accra see launch of new ICTD project building on years of research and policy dialogues, in partnership with WIEGO, on taxation and informal economies in Africa….
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January 2025
UN Tax Talks: New research highlights key scenarios at next week’s historic negotiations

New research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping these historic negotiations….
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January 2025
ICTD welcomes new cohort to 10th edition of its Tax and Development course

This year’s cohort – carefully selected from over 800 applicants, the most yet – consists of tax practitioners, researchers, lawyers, civil society actors, and public finance experts, among others, with participants hailing from across the African continent as well as Asia and North America. …
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December 2024
ICTD team reading list recommendations for 2024

Throughout the year ICTD team members have been curating monthly reading lists with thought-provoking books covering…
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December 2024
ICTD-RRA conference discusses future of digital tax administration

More than 100 experts and policymakers across Africa gathered in a conference in Kigali, Rwanda last week to discuss the latest evidence on the potential and challenges of digitalising tax administrations….
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November 2024
G20 Brazil: How does taxation fit into the agenda?

Researchers from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) participated in crafting such recommendations in a number of policy briefs, situating the issues within the tax context….
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Closeup on a paper hanging from a typewriter, with the word TAX highlighted among a series of numbers
November 2024
CoP on Gender & Tax Explores Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models

At the last meeting of the Community of Practice on Gender and Tax (CoPGT), held on…
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October 2024
World Cities Day: why subnational property tax can support urban development

On World Cities Day, we look at how subnational property taxes can help cities address development challenges….
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A man is giving a presentation, holding a microphone and standing up at the end of a long table that is covered by a bright red cloth. Behind the table to women are listening to the presentation.
October 2024
Digital Public Infrastructure and Taxation in Africa – what have we learnt and what’s next?

Drawing from their work under ICTD’s recently concluded DIGITAX Research Programme, Research Fellow Fabrizio Santoro and Research Officer Celeste Scarpini shared key findings and lessons learned on the matter during an internal seminar hosted by the Institute of Development Studies last week….
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