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Tax Administration and Compliance

Many of the challenges low-income countries face in mobilising domestic resources are related to tax administration as much as tax policy. Our research on this theme encompasses all aspects of tax administration, from technology adoption, to data management and strategies for collecting revenue from different types of taxpayers. Tax compliance is a key focus, as low-income countries struggle with widespread evasion, corruption, and limited administrative capacity. Our research on compliance includes survey-based studies of taxpayers’ perceptions and attitudes, case studies, and large-scale field experiments.

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Publications

Working Paper

Digital Merchant Payments as a Medium of Tax Compliance

March 2023
Ludovic Bernad, Yves Nsengiyumva, Benjamin Byinshi, Naphtal Hakizimana & Fabrizio Santoro
Working Paper

How Might the National Revenue Authority of Sierra Leone Enhance Revenue Collection by Taxing High Net Worth Individuals?

March 2023
Jalia Kangave, Giovanni Occhiali & Ishmail Kamara
Partner Publication

The Alternatives to Universal Tax Registration in Sri Lanka

March 2023
Mick Moore & Nishan de Mel
Research in Brief

Mandating Digital Tax Tools as a Response to Covid: Evidence from Eswatini

February 2023
Fabrizio Santoro, Razan Amine & Tanele Magongo
Research in Brief

The Promise and Limitations of Information Technology for Tax Mobilisation

February 2023
Celeste Scarpini, Oyebola Okunogbe & Fabrizio Santoro
Working Paper

Technology and Tax: Adoption and Impacts of E-services in Rwanda

January 2023
Fabrizio Santoro, Adrienne Lees, Marco Carreras, Theonille Mukamana, Naphtal Hakizimana & Yves Nsengiyumva
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Regional tax harmonisation is controversial, with compelling arguments for and against. Is it desirable? Or beneficial? And if so, to whom?…

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Introduced in May 2022, Ghana’s e-levy is a 1.5 per cent tax on the transfer amount of electronic transactions. The objective is to improve tax revenues by tapping into fast-growing digital financial services (DFS). However, many exemptions are applied to the tax design….

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Why taxation should be high on the agenda for Commonwealth leaders

by Giulia Mascagni

Tax might not be the first thing that comes to mind but it is central to delivering much of the transformative change on the agenda in Kigali, from increasing women’s economic participation to youth entrepreneurship….

Research Projects

Current Project

Mapping Property Tax Compliance in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Wilson Prichard, Abou Bakarr Kamara, Niccoló Meriggi, Kevin Grieco & Julian Michel
Current Project

Tax Messaging and Compliance Behavior: Does Varying Messaging on Tax Bills Influence Compliance?

Abou Bakar Kamara, Niccolo Meriggi, Kevin Grieco & Julian Michel
Current Project

Participatory Budgeting and Tax Compliance in a Weak State: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Abou Bakar Kamara, Niccoló Meriggi, Kevin Grieco & Julian Michel
Current Project

Rebuilding the Social Compact: Urban Service Delivery and Property Taxes in Pakistan

Asim Kwahja, Benjamin Olken, Adnan Khan & Mahvish Shaukat
Current Project

Public Reporting and Property Tax Compliance: A Field Experiment in Kampala, Uganda

Tanner Regan & Priya Manwaring
Current Project

Anatomy of Filing Non-Compliance in VAT Systems

Tejaswi Vlayudhan
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