News
2 July 2025
Pakistan’s bid to raise more revenue: a closer look at wealth taxes and DPI
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government presented the Federal Budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year which...
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Brief
24 June 2025
The Tax Era of Development: Taxing Smarter for Equity, Growth, and Resilience
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Tax is not only the primary source of financing in lower-income countries, but also the lynchpin of development finance.
Brief
23 June 2025
Public Support for Wealth and Progressive Taxes in Pakistan
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.
Past Event
Taxing wealth in lower income countries
In the face of declining aid volumes and mounting debt and climate crises, lower income countries are under increasing pressure to raise...
Opinion
5 June 2025
News
28 May 2025
ICTD Launches new Community of Practice on Informality and Tax
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), based at the Institute of Development Studies, is launching a Community of...
Opinion
26 March 2025
Publication
26 March 2025
Zakat Payments in Pakistan Exceed State Social Protection
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion of their wealth as zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam...
Journal Article
26 March 2025
Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development
Published by: Development Policy Review
Taxation has received increasing attention from researchers and in the context of development policy, though less attention has been...
Brief
26 March 2025
Tax and Gender: Why Informality Matters
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Recent policy debates have increasingly focused on the gendered impacts of taxation, yet much of this work is rooted in high-income...