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Policy Brief

Exploring the Development of Mobile Money Markets and Revenue Collection from Digital Financial Services Taxes in Africa

August 2024
Hannelore Niesten & Christopher Wales
Policy Brief

Crafting a Model for Taxing Digital Financial Services

August 2024
Christopher Wales & Hannelore Niesten
Policy Brief

Taxing Mobile Money in Africa: Risk and Reward

July 2024
Martin Hearson, Philip Mader, Mary Abounabhan, Marco Carreras, Awa Diouf, Adrienne Lees, Hannelore Niesten, Fabrizio Santoro & Christopher Wales
July 2024|
Blog

Taxing mobile money: Five critical strategies for policymakers

by Awa Diouf, Hannelore Niesten & Mary Abounabhan

Revenue authorities, policymakers, industry, and researchers met to explore how taxes on mobile money could be effectively and equitably designed….
Working Paper

What are the Enablers and Impacts of Digital Financial Services? An Updated Evidence Gap Map

July 2024
Philip Mader, Keir Macdonald, Maren Duvendack, Mary Abounabhan, Celeste Scarpini & Hemangi Sharma
Research in Brief

What are the Enablers and Impacts of Digital Financial Services? An Updated Evidence Gap Map

July 2024
Philip Mader, Keir Macdonald, Maren Duvendack, Mary Abounabhan, Celeste Scarpini & Hemangi Sharma
Mobile money agent in Cameroon
June 2024|
Blog

Why Cameroon’s mobile money agents are struggling to increase revenue

by Alphonse Noah & Ruth Tacneng

After the introduction of a tax on mobile money transactions in 2022, mobile money agents in Cameroon have been experiencing a decline in their revenues amid fierce competition, a proliferation of fraud and scams, and liquidity management challenges….
Research in Brief

Taxing Mobile Money in Kenya: Impact on Financial Inclusion

May 2024
Awa Diouf, Marco Carreras & Fabrizio Santoro
May 2024|
Blog

Tax incentives for digital payments – Lessons for African tax administration organisations

by Lucia Rossel & Fabrizio Santoro

Are digital payment tax incentives delivering on the promise of increased tax revenuue? A comprehensive comparative compilation of experience in Africa, Asia and America….
Research in Brief

Using Digital Technologies to Improve Tax Collection – the Case of Togo

March 2024
Dorothy Kang’oro, Fidèle Kanyarugero Ngerero & Ignatius Odongo
News
March 2024
Insights on Ghana’s e-levy: What do we know nearly two years on?

A two-day workshop opened in Accra, Ghana, on the topic ‘Taxing mobile money: Lessons and ways forward’. Research findings and recommendations have been very useful in shaping Ghana’s e-levy….
Event
28 February 2024 - 29 February 2024
Taxing mobile money: Lessons and ways forward

The workshop’s primary purpose is to explore how mobile money taxes could be designed in an effective and equitable way based on discussion centred around research and real-life experiences…
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