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2 months ago | 
ictd.ac | Max Gallien |Martin Hearson |Mary Abounabhan
The first budget speech of Ghana’s new government on 11 March painted a picture of an economy in crisis, facing high debt and fiscal mismanagement. The finance minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, acknowledged that key International Monetary Fund performance targets would be missed and announced drastic spending cuts. However, most Ghanaians just wanted to know whether the minister would announce the scrapping of the country’s electronic transfer levy (or e-tax), as he’d indicated he would.
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2 months ago | 
ictd.ac | Max Gallien |Umair Javed
Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion – broadly 2,5% – of their wealth as zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam. On the occasion of Ramadan, when most zakat is paid, we highlight three preliminary findings emerging from a new nationally representative survey of 7,500 Sunni Pakistanis conducted in 2024.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
ictd.ac | Martin Hearson |Frederik Heitmüller
BRIGHTON, UK, January 30 – With formal negotiations on a new UN-led international tax convention kick-starting in New York next month, new research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping these historic negotiations.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
ictd.ac | Giulia Mascagni |Stephanie Alkoussa
Integrating the gender dimension into public finances, and in particular taxation, has become a challenge for revenue authorities around the world. Tax policies and the way they are implemented can have a significant impact on gender issues in tax systems.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
ictd.ac | Martin Hearson |Giulia Mascagni
More than 100 tax practitioners, researchers and policymakers from across Africa gathered in a conference in Kigali, Rwanda last week to discuss the latest evidence on the potential of, and challenges surrounding the digitalisation of tax administrations.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
ictd.ac | Colette Nyirakamana |Oyebola Okunogbe |Wilson Prichard |Caren Grown
The ICTD and LoGRI will be hosting a side event at the Second Preparatory Committee Session of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). The side event will be held on December 3rd, from 10:00 to 11:30am at the UN Headquarters in New York, in Conference Room A. The newly released Elements Paper brings forward a much wider range of issues related to domestic tax systems than the Addis Ababa Action Agenda laid out in 2015.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
ictd.ac | Giulia Mascagni |Isaac Amoako
As digitalisation climbs the policy agenda on national, regional, and international stages, tax administrations worldwide are implementing digital reforms and leveraging digitized data. However, ongoing research and policy debate are demonstrating the complexities of implementing effective digital solutions.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ictd.ac | Martin Hearson |Max Gallien |Frederik Heitmüller
The G20 Summit kicked off yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, bringing together leaders from the world’s largest economies to discuss issues of global importance, particularly those surrounding . The Summit is a culmination of negotiations throughout the year where member countries are expected to come to an agreement on ways to deal with identified global challenges.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
ictd.ac | Celeste Scarpini |Martin Hearson
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) holds great potential in strengthening increasingly digitalised tax administration, but important questions persist on how to fully unlock this potential for governments in low-income countries.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
ictd.ac | Martin Hearson
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will be hosting a seminar on ‘Making global tax governance fit for the 21st century’, which will feature ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson who will present a paper of the same title. The event, which will run from 17:00-18:30 BST, is part of the LSE Taxation Seminar Series, which engages the wider tax community with a dynamic programme featuring academics, practitioners, and apolicymakers discussing current issues in taxation.