ATAP Working Paper 12
Revenue administrations collect large amounts of data on individuals and firms in the course of their work. Increasingly, this data is digitised. The use of digital technologies has the potential to greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tax administration, by: Reducing the cost of...
12 July 2019
ICTD Research in Brief 30
Tax collection has historically – in Africa and elsewhere – been collected almost entirely by men, partly reflecting patterns of authority and privilege in society, and partly owing to the traditionally coercive and confrontational approaches used. The situation is changing, with women...
22 January 2019
ICTD Working Paper 85
Tax collection has historically – in Africa and in the rest of the world – been very much a male preserve. The situation is changing. Partly because of changes in the ways in which taxes are collected, women are entering the profession in increasing numbers. In Africa, they are still very...
12 November 2018
The governments of many low-income countries now express a strong commitment to enhanced domestic resource mobilisation. They have, on average, greatly reduced their dependence on foreign aid over the last two decades. Domestic resource mobilisation was the first item on the Action Agenda at the...
1 January 2018