Fifteen (15) researchers from different African countries were in Addis Ababa, for a three – day workshop which was jointly organised by the ICTD and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF). This was under the banner of the African Tax Research Network (ATRN). The inaugural Research Methods and Dissemination Workshop took place between 3-6…
The ICTD is the newest Africa Portal content partner, a collaboration that will see the portal share our publication on tax and development. The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource, which seeks to broaden the availability, accessibility and use of policy research, on issues critical to the future of Africa. It currently houses over 5000 books, journals and digital…
If you are here, then you probably have noticed that the website looks different. Yes, we’re very excited to announce the launch of our new and improved website, which went live last week and the URL is www.ictd.ac. Other than giving the website a fresh look, a few of our goals with the new website were…
Former Indian Minister of Finance and Home Shri P. Chidambaram. Challenge of tax policy and tax administration in a developing country: Former Indian Minister of Finance, Shri P. Chidambaram, delivered a speech during the 20th Annual Oration on Taxation, organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. His speech, titled “Tax Administration in a Developing…
The ICTD, in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies and the African Tax Administration Forum, organised its first Tax and Development short course from January 26-29th at the IDS in Brighton, UK. The course covered a variety of issues, including the role of taxation in development, international taxation, extractive industry taxation, subnational taxation,…
The ICTD in partnership with the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), will offer a Tax and Development Short Courses early next year in Ethiopia. Africa course: 15th – 18th February 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia *There are only 25 places, so apply now!! This course will build on last year’s inaugural edition of…
Today (October 5, 2015), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released their Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) outcomes, which are proposals for new rules to combat tax avoidance by transnational companies. The G20 leaders had tasked the OECD to work to address base erosion and profit shifting, based on the 2013 G20/OECD BEPS Action Plan,…
By Wilson Prichard and Kyle McNabb In 2010, the ICTD launched efforts to create the ICTD Government Revenue Dataset (GRD), which is increasingly recognized as the best possible source of cross-country revenue data for researchers. An important motivation was concern about the quality and transparency of data available from the IMF: Publicly available data had significant…
ICTD Research Director Wilson Prichard is the author of a new book titled “Taxation, Responsiveness and Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Tax Bargaining”. The book provides the most comprehensive analysis of the connections between taxation and government accountability in developing countries to date. It establishes that reliance on taxation, by increasing the political power of…
7-9 December 2014- Arusha, Tanzania
In association with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA)
The 4th ICTD Annual Meeting, kindly sponsored by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, was very well atended and engaged a mixture of professionals, notably researchers and African tax administrators and tax specialists, in constructive dialogue about contemporary tax challenges in Africa.
10-12 December 2013 – Lomé, Togo
This Annual Centre Meeting brought together tax administrators and experts from Africa and beyond who shared experiences and discussed key issues on tax and development.
Among the delegates were representatives from development organisations such as the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the OECD.
The meeting was opened by the Director General of Togo Customs, Mr Kodjo Adedze who highlighted the importance of tax systems for good governance and the need to reform the international tax system.
Researchers working in Africa also shared encouraging results from research on tax practices in the informal sector, taxpayer perceptions and unitary taxation.
Tax in Developing Countries: Increasing Resouces for Development This is the first evidence session for the Committee’s inquiry into taxation in developing countries. It provides an opportunity for Members to examine the complex background to this issue, and to begin to question what DFID can do in this area. The International Development Committee is appointed…
