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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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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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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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Research on Tax and Development course cohort
September 2024
ICTD wraps in Accra this year’s course on Research on Tax and Development

Twenty-two tax and finance professionals mostly from countries across Africa successfully completed ICTD’s last module for…

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A screenshot of the cover of the IDS Annual Review 2023-24
September 2024
ICTD policy impact featured in Institute of Development Studies’ latest Annual Review

Among IDS’ successes highlighted in its Annual Review 2023-24 was the pioneering research by ICTD that led to a change in the tax policy in Rwanda….

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View of a street in Freetown Sierra Leone with buildings on either sides and people walking as a car passes by.
August 2024
Invitation to submit proposal of tender of service provision

Managing in-country project support for ‘Traditional Leaders, Taxation, and State Building in Sierra Leone’   The…

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August 2024
Applications now open for the ICTD Research on Tax and Development Course

As part of ICTD’s commitment to nurture joint teaching and learning opportunities around tax and development,…

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July 2024
How to tax the ultra-rich: G20 proposal vs. the tools at hand

“It is important for all taxpayers, including ultra-high-net-worth individuals, to contribute their fair share in taxes”…