July 2020
ICTD Research Director Giulia Mascagni was quoted in Africa Check‘s article, “Tax incentives cost Kenya 6% of GDP, but there’s no global ‘standard’”
Media Coverage
Giulia Mascagni quoted in Africa Check
July 2020
ICTD Research Fellow Max Gallien was featured in the Africa and the Global Illicit Economy podcast in their July 7th episode “Licit Economy Smuggling in the Maghreb and Sahel“. The podcast draws on the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s civil society observatories for North, South, East and West Africa to get a feel for how Organized Crime is impacting some of the world and the continent’s emergency trends and contemporary events. Listen to the podcast here.
July 2020
ICTD Research Fellow and International Tax lead Martin Hearson spoke to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and was quoted in their article, “Zambia becomes second nation to tear up Mauritius tax deal”
July 2020
On July 2nd, The Economist’s podcast The Intelligence spoke about Freetown’s new property tax system which will raise up to 5x more revenue in a fairer way. The city received technical support from the ICTD and the International Growth Centre (IGC), and aid from the UK government. Read The Economist article about it here. Listen the podcast here, starting at 17:16.
June 2020
The Economist published an article on June 19 about Freetown’s new property tax system which will raise up to 5x more revenue in a fairer way. Through this process, the city received technical support from the ICTD and International Growth Centre (IGC), and aid from the UK government. Read the article here. Learn more about the reform in our blog “Freetown just implemented a new property tax system that could quintuple revenue“. Learn more about our African Property Tax Initiative here.
June 2020
ICTD researcher Vanessa van den Boogaard’s blog, “Fill the gaps, feel the pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an epidemic’s impact on local taxation, public services, and the poor” was mentioned in Tax Notes’ featured analysis “Gender Blind Isn’t Gender Neutral: Why Tax Policy Responses to COVID-19 Must Consider Women” by Michelle Harding, Grace Perez-Navarro, and Hannah Simon. The piece was original published on the OECD Ecoscope blog here.
May 2020
ICTD Research Fellow Martin Hearson was quoted in Law360’s article, “Failed Trade Negotiations Cast Shadow On Global Tax Talks” published on May 28.
May 2020
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.
May 2020
The ICTD’s CEO Wilson Prichard was interviewed for Bloomberg Tax’s article “Countries Seek New Revenue Sources to Pay for Virus Relief”. He is quoted arguing for expanding the enforcement of existing taxes, particularly on property, in order to finance pandemic response and recovery. Read his related blog “To respond to Covid-19, African governments should prioritise taxing the rich”.
May 2020
ICTD Research Associate Rasmus Corlin Christensen was interviewed by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s TV news programme “Deadline” about how the Covid-19 crisis amplifies issues of globalisation, including tax havens. He spoke about recent controversies over tax havens and flags of convenience used in the shipping industry, and how the pandemic is underscoring their negative impacts. Watch the segment in Danish here (starting around 21:15).
May 2020
ICTD CEO Wilson Prichard’s blog “To help respond to Covid-19, African governments should prioritise taxing the rich” was republished by the African Arguments blog series Debating Ideas and AllAfrica.
May 2020
Senior Fellow Mick Moore’s blog “How can African tax collectors help cope with the economic impacts of Covid-19” was republished by the African Arguments blog series Debating Ideas and AllAfrica.
