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Max Gallien, Martin Hearson, and Mary Abounabhan reflect on Ghana’s scrapped e-levy on The Conversation Africa

Screenshot of The Conversation Africa article by Max Gallien, Martin Hearson, and Mary Abounbhan

ICTD researchers Max Gallien, Martin Hearson, and Mary Abounabhan wrote a piece for The Conversation Africa on the lessons learned from the scrapped electronic transfer levy (e-tax), which was later widely carried by media outlets across the continent, including Africa Leader, Ghana News, Africa Press, and Modern Ghana.

Max Gallien

Max Gallien is a Research Fellow at ICTD. His research specialises in the politics of informal and illegal economies, the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa and development politics. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics. Max co-leads the informality and taxation programme with Vanessa, as well as the ICTD’s capacity building programme.

Martin Hearson

Martin Hearson is a Research Fellow at IDS, Research Director of the ICTD and the International Tax programme lead. His research focuses on the politics of international business taxation, and in particular the relationship between developed and developing countries. Before joining ICTD, Martin was a fellow in international political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, teaching courses on political economy and global financial governance.

Mary Abounabhan

Mary Abounabhan is a Research Officer working on ICTD's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) research theme. She is also underaking a PhD in practice. Her research focuses on the the appropriateness and effectiveness of digital financial services taxes and their development impacts. She has completed her Masters of Globalisation, Business, and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, focusing her research on the Moral Economy of social media taxation in Lebanon.
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Keywords: e-levy, Ghana, mobile money
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