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Wide shot of people in a street in Lahore, Pakistan.
March 2025|
Blog

Pakistanis are paying over 1.7 billion GBP in zakat every year—mostly to women

by Max Gallien, Umair Javed & Vanessa van den Boogaard

Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion – broadly 2,5%…
Factsheet

Zakat Payments in Pakistan Exceed State Social Protection

March 2025
Max Gallien, Umair Javed & Vanessa van den Boogaard
Event
An aerial shot of a busy market place.
18 February 2025 - 21 February 2025
Workshop: Tax and Informal Economies in Africa: Charting Ways Forward

ICTD is hosting a focused workshop in Akosombo, Ghana from 18th to 21st February 2024 that seeks to chart new ways forward in how revenue authorities engage with informal economies….
Research in Brief

Presumptive Taxation and Equity: Evidence from the Ethiopian Informal Sector

May 2024
Fissha Asmare Marye, Seid Yimam Mohamed & Etsehiwot Semreab
African Tax Administration Paper

Presumptive Taxation and Equity: Evidence from the Ethiopian Informal Sector

November 2023
Fissha Asmare Marye, Seid Yimam Mohamed & Etsehiwot Semreab
Research in Brief

Between God, the People, and the State: Citizen Conceptions of Zakat

August 2023
Max Gallien, Umair Javed & Vanessa van den Boogaard
Ethiopia - Planting Avocado Trees in Katbare - July 2011
July 2023|
Blog

Informal Taxation in Ethiopia: Typologies, Prospects, and Challenges

by Misganaw Gashaw Beza & Geremew Worku

Formal tax and non-tax revenue sources, which are estimated to account for 50 to 80% of…
Working Paper

Between God, the People, and the State: Citizen Conceptions of Zakat

June 2023
Max Gallien, Umair Javed & Vanessa van den Boogaard
Partner Publication

Tight Tax Net, Loose Safety Net: Taxation and Social Protection in Accra’s Informal Sector

December 2022
Nana Akua Anyidoho, Max Gallien, Ghida Ismail, Florian Juergens-Grant, Michael Rogan & Vanessa van den Boogaard
August 2022|
Blog

How the Taliban’s more effective and ‘fairer’ tax system helped it win control of Afghanistan

by Ashley Jackson

When the Taliban dramatically gained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, they used bombs and guns to swiftly overcome state security forces. But they also had another valuable and effective weapon at their disposal: taxes….
Journal Article

Co-financing community-driven development through informal taxation: Evidence from south-central Somalia

March 2022
Vanessa van den Boogaard & Fabrizio Santoro
Event
Picture of wall with tag on paying taxes for development in Liberia
2 December 2021
Developing Fiscal States in Africa: Panel Discussion

A central aspect of institutional development in developing economies is building tax systems capable of raising…
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