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Caroline Schimanski on taxing multinational corporations in UgandaWorld Bank's hybrid conference on global tax equity is organized on 22-23 September 2022. Caroline Schimanski , a World Bank and African Development Bank consultant, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper at the conference. The topic of...
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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 is held in-person between UNU-WIDER, the Zambia Revenue Authority ( ZRA ) and Zambia Institute for Policy...
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Experiences from UNU-WIDER Winter School 2022: One of the best global training programmes in tax research
Across Africa, governments are now waking up to the fact that taxation targets or economic development goals will not be met without policies that are based on scientific evidence...
Tax policy Public economics UNU-WIDER Winter SchoolWorking Paper
Revealing 21 per cent of GDP in hidden assets: Evidence from Argentina’s tax amnestiesThis paper studies the effectiveness of tax amnesties and their impacts on capital taxation and public spending...
Tax evasion Argentina TaxationPresentation

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SOUTHMOD country report Uganda - UGAMOD v1.8This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Taxation Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Viet Nam - VNMOD v2.3This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work has been carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management ( CIEM ) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and SASPRI...
Tax benefits Microsimulation Viet NamReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.5This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Taxation Government revenue GHAMODReport
SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v2.12This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia. This work was carried out by Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) in collaboration with the project partners...
Taxation Government revenue MicroZAMODPresentation
Jukka Pirttilä on personal income tax reform in UgandaJukka Pirttilä , UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, gives a presentation at the Tax for Development webinar series on 5 April 2022 (CET). The webinar series is hosted by Chr. Michelsen Institute . The topic of Pirttilä's...
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SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.9This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. It describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Fiscal policy Revenues TaxationTechnical Note
Feasibility study: simulating the impacts of farm subsidies on poverty and inequality in African countriesAgricultural subsidies may have significant productive and distributional consequences, and policy-makers need to be able to assess these impacts as a part of the overall tax and benefit policy...
Agricultural policy Subsidies TaxationProject

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Taxation Administrative data Tax compliance