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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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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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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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16 October 2024
Seminar: Making Global Tax Governance Fit for the 21st Century

The London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE) will be hosting a seminar on ‘Making global tax governance fit for the 21st century’, which will feature ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson who will present a paper of the same title. …
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12 July 2024
Roundtable: The UN Framework Tax Convention

Following last year’s historic vote supporting the establishment of a new UN Framework Tax Convention, a…
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Art card of the webinar hoste d by ICTD honouring the work of Professor Sol Picciotto
6 June 2024
Webinar: Constructing tax justice – honouring the contributions of Sol Picciotto

Free online event celebrating the work of tax justice expert, Professor Sol Picciotto, in a special issue of the Journal on Financing for Development….
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May 2024
Negotiations for new UN Framework Convention on Tax – what next?

The UN ad hoc committee concluded yesterday the first round of negotiations for the final parameters – or the “terms of reference” – for a UN framework convention on tax, which some have said “could deliver the biggest shake-up in history of the global tax system.”…
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Two men standing in front of a mobile money kiosk in Entebbe, Uganda
6 February 2024
Webinar: Taxing mobile money in Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly

At a time when many African countries are facing strong fiscal pressures, the rapidly growing digital…
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November 2023
Can the UK’s new international development strategy support fairer and more effective taxation systems?

Last week, the UK government published a new White Paper on International Development which sets out…