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International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)
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Improving #tax policy in lower-income countries with collaborative and independent #research. We aspire to contribute to advancing sustainable development by reducing inequality, fostering inclusive growth & enhancing governance. Find us at www.ictd.ac
As #COP30 hghlights climate finance gaps, revisit this analysis by ICTD's Giovanni Occhiali on environmental taxation in Africa ⬇️

Going beyond carbon pricing, it explores fiscal approaches to urban pollution, waste management and deforestation.

#TaxExperts #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalTax #Africa
Just environmental taxation in Africa: how tax policy can curb environmental damage, far beyond just carbon taxes - ICTD
How can environmental taxes increase the sustainability of economic growth in low-income countries?
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November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New ICTD blog: a grounded look at where #UNTaxConvention negotiations stand and what questions remain unresolved.

Covers the substantive debates around scope, process, and what different pathways might mean for international tax cooperation 👇

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#TaxExperts #GlobalTax
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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UNU-WIDER is in Uganda this week! 🇺🇬 We hosted the Uganda Revenue Authority Research Day with @ictdtax.bsky.social. Key takeaways:

✅ Evidence-based policy is crucial
🤝 Collaboration drives real change
📊 Digital transformation boosts transparency
📣 Public awareness is key for trust
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Protocol 1 of the #UNTaxConvention tackles one of the most contentious questions in int'l taxation: when services flow across borders, who gets to tax the income they generate?

Read more about the tensions and key debates around this in part 2 of our reading list ➡️ ow.ly/H3js50X9857

#TaxExperts
UN Tax Convention reading list part 2: Protocol 1 - Taxation of cross-border services - ICTD
ICTD has compiled relevant sources on Protocol 1, dealing with the cross-border taxation of services in a digitalised and globalised economy.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📊 Our latest research on digital tax payments in #Eswatini shows that voluntary adoption drove stronger compliance gains than mandates.

Read the full paper here: ow.ly/gqzj50X60NR

#TaxExperts #TaxPolicy #DigitalPayments
Cashless Tax Systems: Voluntary vs. Mandated Digital Payments in Eswatini - ICTD
The study looks at the impacts of digital payment on tax compliance leveraging a 2021 zero-cash-handling mandate in Eswatini.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This #InternationalPodcastDay, listen back to this explainer by @theconversation.com, released in June this year, featuring our Research Director @martinhearson.bsky.social on the 15% global minimum tax deal 👇

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#InternationalTax #TaxExperts
Four years after a 15% global minimum tax deal, the world remains divided on how to implement it – podcast
Listen to the second part of The 15% solution – two episodes from The Conversation Weekly podcast exploring plans to reform the global tax system.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🌍 We’re in Cape Town until the 18th for the 10th ATRN Congress on Contemporary Taxation Issues in Africa!

Our team will be speaking on panels, hosting a masterclass, and engaging with tax practitioners & researchers throughout the event. We also have a booth featuring our latest work - come say hi!
September 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📢Presumptive taxes are widely used to engage with informal economies -but how well do they actually work?

Our upcoming webinar for the Informality & Tax Community of Practice explores new evidence and challenges.

👉Join the discussion: mailchi.mp/ictd.ac/ictd...

#Tax #Informality #PresumptiveTaxes
September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
How does drug policy relate to development and taxation? 👇

Joining @healthpoverty.bsky.social's webinar this Wednesday, our Research Fellow @maxgallien.bsky.social will speak on what opportunities fair taxation of regulated drug markets can offer.

Register here: ow.ly/yzuu50WSZHj

#TaxExperts
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🎉Congratulations to Gayatri Sahgal on the publication of her research in the Journal of Modern African Studies!

Based on ICTD funded research, Gayatri examines- through the lens of taxation- the relationship between the state & the telecommunications sector in Somalia➡️ www.ictd.ac/publication/...
The state-capital nexus in fragile contexts: a case study of tax relations in Somalia - ICTD
This paper examines state-business relations in Somalia, by studying tax relations between the telecommunications sector and the state.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
📬 The latest ICTD Insights is out!

Catch up on our work on the #UNTaxConvention, informality, digitalisation, and recent wins from our short course alumni! 🎉

See here 👉 ow.ly/1Vc750WP37Q

Subscribe so you don't miss the next one 👉 ow.ly/40Sn50QxVQI

#Taxation #TaxExperts #TaxResearch #TaxPolicy
September 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🏆Congrats to Laura Montenbruck on winning the IIPF Young Economists Award!

Her study in Freetown- alongside an ICTD,
@logritax.bsky.social & @theigc.bsky.social property tax reform work- shows how better info on public services can boost tax compliance.

📜Read her blog: www.ictd.ac/blog/does-in...
Our #IIPF2025 congress in Nairobi now being over, IIPF President James Hines and scientific committee chairs @fgerard.bsky.social @shafikhebous.bsky.social are happy to introduce two award winners:

1/2: 2025 IIPF Young Economists Award went to
Laura Montenbruck (Stockholm Uni).

Congratulations!
September 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Le gouvernement ivoirien est sous pression pour augmenter son taux de pression fiscale afin d’atteindre le seuil de 20 % fixé par l’UEMOA.

🏗️Bien qu’identifié comme une source de revenus essentielle, l’impôt foncier reste encore largement inexploitée!

Lisez le blog ici ➡️ www.ictd.ac/fr/blog/impo...
Réformes de l’imposition foncière en Côte d’Ivoire: le paradoxe de la volonté politique - ICTD
Au Côte d’Ivoire, l’impôt foncier représente une ressource importante de revenus qui reste largement inexploitée.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎓We’re always thrilled to hear from our course alumni!

In June, Nigeria overhauled its tax & revenue systems with the passage of 4 major new tax laws, an achievement in which Rafat Gambo (2019/21 alumnus) has played a pivotal role.

📖Read about it: www.ictd.ac/news/nigeria...

#TaxReform #Taxation
August 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Did you know that for every 5 informal businesses, only 1 earns enough to rise above the poverty line in Zimbabwe?

📊Based on a survey of 2,490 informal operators, we analyse the sector's problems- from hidden taxes, gender imbalances and city matters: www.ictd.ac/blog/zimbabw...

@diis.dk #Taxation
August 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A lot of attention has been on #FfD4 & the Compromiso de Sevilla – but what does it actually mean amidst a global debt crisis?

@maxgallien.bsky.social & @floriangrant.bsky.social chat with WIEGO about the process and its outcomes: www.wiego.org/blog/tax-jus...

#FinancingOurFuture #TaxExperts
Funding Development Through the Lens of Tax Justice and Social Protection
What is the International Conference on Financing for Development and how is it significant in setting the agenda for development financing and cooperation? Max: It’s a large UN-driven process that br...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
For over a decade, we've been running our course on research in tax and development.

Described as a professional eye-opener, career shifter and once in a lifetime opportunity, the course is designed for anyone interested in conducting research on tax & development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8P...
What is studying with ICTD like? They've tried it and have the answer.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Thank you @isanet.bsky.social !!! Very happy and honored to have received this prize, as the first recipients!! Big thanks to the @ictdtax.bsky.social for their support in funding this research!!
🎉 Congratulations to the 2024 Best Virtual Conference Paper award recipients and honorable mentions for their exceptional scholarship! Applications for this year's cycle open on Aug. 1 via buff.ly/xKSPseI
August 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
💬 The recently introduced 1% tax on all cash-based remittances in the US will have "devastating & destabilizing effects on the world's poorest countries."

Read the full op-ed by ICTD's Vanessa van den Boogaard, along with Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia, for Foreign Policy ⬇️

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#TaxExperts
A Lifeline for Global Development Is Under Threat
Trump’s remittance tax will hurt migrants—and incentivize emigration.
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August 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
L’UEMOA est souvent citée comme un leader mondial en coordination fiscale. Mais après plus de 30 ans d’harmonisation, où en est-on vraiment ?

📃 On revient sur les avancées, les défis, et les solutions pour renforcer la gouvernance fiscale régionale ➡️ www.ictd.ac/fr/blog/comm...

#AfriqueDeLOuest
Comment l’UEMOA redéfinit la politique d’harmonisation fiscale en Afrique de l’Ouest - ICTD
Depuis sa création, l’UEMOA vise à rapprocher les systèmes fiscaux de ses États membres. Cette stratégie a-t-elle tenu ses promesses ?
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August 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
WAEMU is often seen as a global leader in tax coordination.
After 3 decades of aligning member states’ tax systems, how much progress has really been made?

📃We look at what’s worked, the challenges, and what’s next for regional tax governance ➡️ ow.ly/NtW450WBmFh

#Tax #Africa #WestAfrica
How WAEMU is reshaping tax harmonisation policy across west Africa - ICTD
Since its creation in 1994, WAEMU has pursued a core strategy of bringing member states’ tax systems closer together. Has it succeeded?
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August 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 NEW POLICY BRIEF 🚨

Our latest policy brief analyses the institutional trade-offs facing negotiators surrounding #UNTaxConvention Protocol 1 on cross-border services in a digitalised and globalised economy.

Read it here ➡️ ow.ly/EQt750WBcnO

#TaxExperts #InternationalTax #GlobalTaxGovernance
August 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Can simplified tax & social security schemes help formalise informal work?

While African countries are still experimenting with these approaches, lessons can also be drawn from Latin American reforms.

More in this blog➡️
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#Tax #InformalEconomy #SocialProtection
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Toward formalisation: Can simplified tax and social security contributions help? - ICTD
As interest in simplified tax grows, African countries can look at Latin America for lessons learned from the informal sector.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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📍LoGRI Chair @wilsonprichard.bsky.social recently attended the #ATI General Assembly 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!

Check out our event highlights here👇
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#ATIGA2025 #PropertyTax

📸 @ictdtax.bsky.social, International Tax Compact
August 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📣Applications are now open for the ICTD course on Research on Tax and Development!

Want to gain diverse methodological training, new material on tax & development, and an individual mentorship? Apply by 31 August!

⏳Only limited spots are available ➡️ ow.ly/lg9a50WzrqS

#OnlineCourse #TaxCourse
Research on Tax and Development course: 2025 applications now open - ICTD
Applications are now open for the ICTD Research on Tax and Development Course. The application deadline is August 31.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM