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How have formal firms recovered from the pandemic?: Insights from survey and tax administrative data in ZambiaThis paper examines how formal firms have been impacted by and recovered from the pandemic by drawing on two distinct but complementary data sources...
Firms COVID-19 Tax administration dataSeminar

Project workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in TanzaniaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held in-person between UNU-WIDER and the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) in Dar es Salaam 9 May...
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Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons from RwandaThis project analyses administrative tax data in Rwanda to provide knowledge for better policy-making with respect to mobilizing public revenue for inclusive economic development. The project conducts new, policy-relevant research based on the...
Tax administration data SDG17 RwandaTechnical Note
The Uganda Revenue Authority firm panelThis technical note describes the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) firm panel, which is constructed from administrative corporate income tax (CIT) returns and firm registration data for the financial years 2013/14–2019/20...
Tax data Corporate income tax UgandaNews

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UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy researchUNU-WIDER is launching a Winter School on tax policy research. The aim of the course is to provide African researchers with an understanding of the theories, methods, and data availability for conducting high quality analysis on tax and development...
Tax policy Tax administration data ResearchAbout
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons from TanzaniaThis project analyses administrative tax data in Tanzania to provide knowledge for better policy-making with respect to mobilizing public revenue for inclusive economic development. The project conducts new, policy-relevant research based on the...
Tax administration data TanzaniaAbout
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons from ZambiaThis project analyses administrative tax data in Zambia to provide knowledge for better policy-making with respect to mobilizing public revenue for inclusive economic development. The project conducts new, policy-relevant research based on the...
Tax administration data Zambia SDG17Project

Theme: Transforming societies
Capacity development Tax administration data SDG17Working Paper
Income distribution in Uganda based on tax registers: what do top incomes say?We use income data from tax registers at the Uganda Revenue Authority from 2011 to 2017 to estimate top income inequality, focusing on the very top—the top 1, 0.1, and 0.01 per cent of the income distribution...
Top incomes Inequality Tax dataProject workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in TanzaniaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER, Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) and Department of Economics of the...
Project workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in UgandaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER and Uganda Revenue Authority ( URA ). The topics discussed in this...
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An African in Africa: New perspectives on travelling for research
Working for an international organisation presents a host of challenges, given the vast nature of tasks that one must surmount in a fast paced and changing environment...
Zambia Ghana AfricaProject workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in ZambiaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) and...