International Centre for Tax and Development

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International Centre for Tax and Development
AbbreviationICTD
Formation2010
Typeresearch centre
HeadquartersLibrary Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RE
Location
Executive Director
Wilson Prichard
Websitewww.ictd.ac

The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) is a research centre based at the Institute of Development Studies. The ICTD is focused on improving tax policy and administration in lower-income countries through collaborative research and engagement. It supports its partners in raising more revenue to fund public services in ways that are efficient, equitable, and strengthen accountability.

The ICTD was founded in 2010. [1][2]It is funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).

The ICTD fosters a network of social science researchers from developing countries to engage with taxation issues by funding research, delivering research courses and workshops, and collaborating with a range of partners including various African tax administrations and ministries of finance.[3][4][5] It disseminates its research evidence to policymakers through publications, communications, and conferences in Africa.[6][7] Through its work, the ICTD aims to contribute to advancing sustainable development by reducing inequality, fostering inclusive growth, and enhancing governance.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Research

The ICTD's research aims to generate knowledge to make tax systems in lower-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, more efficient, fair and transparent. To this end, the ICTD conducts and provides grants for research on the following themes:

In order to facilitate better research on tax issues, the ICTD created the Government Revenue Dataset, the most complete and accurate cross-country dataset on government revenue, which importantly separates natural resource revenue from other revenue streams.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] In early 2019, UNU-WIDER launched the GRD Explorer, a tool that allows users to quickly and easily access and visualise the data contained in the Government Revenue Dataset.[22]

Publications

ICTD has published and supported the publication of many working papers, policy briefs, journal articles, and books.[23] They also publish 2-page brief summaries of their research, available in both English and French.

In July 2018, Taxing Africa was published by Zed Books as a part of their African Arguments series. The book offers a cutting-edge analysis on all aspects of the continent’s tax regime, displaying the crucial role such arrangements have on attempts to create social justice and push economic advancement. From tax evasion by multinational corporations and African elites to how ordinary people navigate complex webs of ‘informal’ local taxation, the book examines the potential for reform, and how space might be created for enabling locally-led strategies.[24]

Programmes

Local Government Revenue Initiative

The Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) is based at the Munk School of Global Affairs. LoGRI supports governments in raising local revenue more fairly and in ways that promote trust, transparency, and accountability. It does this by:

  1. Partnering with governments to provide hands-on support and advice
  2. Conducting collaborative, applied research to inform reform projects
  3. Developing operational tools, including technology solutions
  4. Delivering skills training to develop local capacity

The LoGRI team also engages with regional and international stakeholders on local financing issues, to share insights and shape policy. stimulates and encourages wider use of more effective property tax systems in Africa.[25]

DIGITAX

The DIGITAX Research Programme aims to generate knowledge and evidence to advise and support governments and other stakeholders in overcoming challenges and leveraging opportunities at the interface of:

  1. digital financial services
  2. digital IDs, and
  3. tax.

DIGITAX delivers advice and support based on robust, relevant, and cutting-edge research on the taxation of mobile money and other digital financial services, as well as on the digitalisation of tax systems across lower-income countries, with a particular focus on Africa. The programme is funded by the funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [26]

References

  1. ^ "Research for Development Project Record/ International Centre for Tax and Development". DFID. 2010. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14.
  2. ^ "Beyond Magic Bullets in Governance Reform". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2014.
  3. ^ "International Centre for Tax and Development". Institute of Development Studies. 2015.
  4. ^ "RRA urged to embrace best international taxation practices". The New Times. 2015.
  5. ^ "Our Partners". International Centre for Tax and Development. 2019.
  6. ^ "$2.48 Billion is what Dar has lost through trade misinvoicing in a decade". Empire Voice. 2014.
  7. ^ "How TZ loses $248m to miners". The Citizen. 2014.
  8. ^ "UK urged to support Zambia's tax-raising from multinationals". The Guardian. 2012.
  9. ^ "Africa:pumping up the tax volume". Public Finance. 2015.
  10. ^ "Africa: Tax Targeting Won't Work and Could Undermine SDGs". AllAfrica.com. 2015.
  11. ^ "IDS: Taxes Help Spur Development". Voice of America. 2015.
  12. ^ "Africa's Tax Systems: Progress, but What's the Next Generation of Reforms?". World Bank. 2013.
  13. ^ "Zambia: Unequal Wealth Share Worries ICTD". AllAfrica.com. 2012.
  14. ^ "What happens to people's willingness to pay tax when the richest dodge their responsibilities?". Phys.org. 2014.
  15. ^ "Global tax-comparison database launched to boost transparency". Public Finance. 2014.
  16. ^ "How can we better compare fiscal fundamentals?". Public Finance. 2014.
  17. ^ "Bad Tax Data, Bad Tax Research? Introducing the New Government Revenue Dataset". Center for Global Development. 2014.
  18. ^ "New Global Tax Dataset Offers Unique Opportunity for International Comparison of Government Revenue". Institute of Development Studies. 2014.
  19. ^ "The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset/ICTD Working Paper 19". DFID. 2014.
  20. ^ "The Launch of the International Centre for Tax and Development Government Revenue Dataset". Munk School of Global Affairs. 2014.
  21. ^ The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset, Social Science Research Network, 2014, SSRN 2496442
  22. ^ "UNU-WIDER : Government Revenue Dataset". UNU-WIDER. 2016-01-14. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  23. ^ "Publications". The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD). Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  24. ^ "Taxing Africa". ZED Books.
  25. ^ "Local Government Revenue Initiative". The International Centre for Tax and Development.
  26. ^ "DIGITAX Research Programme". The International Centre for Tax and Development.

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