The ICTD is delighted to have hosted Ronald Waiswa and Michael Falade as Visiting Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies. Ronald Waiswa is a Research and Policy Analysis Supervisor at the Uganda Revenue Authority and has previously collaborated with the ICTD on ground-breaking research on taxing wealthy individuals and public sector agencies in Uganda….
We’re delighted to welcome four new members to our team this month! James Murdoch James is an alumnus of the Institute of Development Studies, where he completed his master’s in Development Studies in 2014. Before joining the ICTD, James was the Global Operations Manager of the Youth Career Initiative. He was also the CEO of…
Our book, Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform, and Development by Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard, and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, was recently listed as one of the three best books on Africa in 2019 by Foreign Affairs. The book offers a fascinating insight into the key issues facing policy makers, tax collectors, civil society activists and donors working to…
ICTD is seeking a Lead Researcher for our new three-year research programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to investigate (a) the consequences of alternative methods of taxing digital financial services (DFS) in low income countries and (b) how DFS platforms, the use of digital ID, and technology more broadly, can contribute effectively…
On December 5 and 6th, members and stakeholders of the Nigerian Tax Research Network are gathered in Abuja for the Network’s third annual meeting on the theme “Revenue challenges online and offline: Bridging the digital divide in an analogue economy.” The theme of the meeting touches on several important issues. First is the ongoing work…
The Nigerian Tax Research Network (NTRN) is pleased to invite members to it’s 2019 meeting on December 5th and 6th at the FIRS Training School in Abuja. This event is hosted in partnership with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The conference seeks to bring together stakeholders and showcase the best current research on the pressing challenges of taxation and revenue in…
Press Release The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) has been granted $4.5 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a 3-year research and capacity building program on tax in relation to digital financial services, and their use, as well as digital ID infrastructure, in enabling low-income countries to more efficiently…
Join the final Toktok Bilong Strongim Nesen discussion series event for 2019 in a fascinating public discussion themed ‘Billions from Betel Nut? Taxation, Growth and Governance’. It will be held at the University of Papua New Guinea on Thursday 21 November, commencing at 2pm PGT, with opening remarks by the Australian High Commissioner to PNG,…
Press Release The Ethiopian government recently unveiled an ambitious “Homegrown Economic Reform” agenda, which, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said, “aims to propel Ethiopia into becoming the African icon of prosperity by 2030.” One of the agenda’s priorities is increasing domestic resource mobilisation to finance sustainable development. Although the Ethiopian government has undertaken several reforms…
David Stewart interviewed ICTD Research Fellow Martin Hearson for the Tax Notes Talk Podcast. The two discussed how the OECD’s work on the taxation of the digital economy affects developing countries, and how they have reacted to the OECD Secretariat’s “Unified Approach under Pillar 1” proposal. Listen to the episode here. Forbes subsequently published the podcast…
On October 20th, ICTD Research Fellow Dr Martin Hearson presented at the 6th annual World Bank Group and IMF “Tax Sunday” in Washington D.C.. On the theme “Strengthening Tax Systems in a Digitalizing World,” the conference focused on international tax reform and digitalisation in developing economies, as well as the role of innovative technology in…
ICTD Senior Fellow Sol Picciotto, Research Fellow Martin Hearson, and researcher Mustapha Ndajiwo participated in the recent UN Tax Committee (UNTC) meeting in Geneva. Sol contributed comments in the discussions on the revision of the UN Manual on Transfer Pricing, while Mustapha contributed to the discussion on digitalisation, pointing in particular to the relevance of the…