Obstacles to Increasing Tax Revenues in Low Income Countries. ICTD Working Paper 15
Abstract
This paper is focused on the question: why do the governments of low income countries not raise more tax revenues. Two different but complementary approaches are used to answer it. The first approach is comparisons: among countries today, and within countries over time. This approach tends to generate relatively conservative answers to the central question. The second approach to answering the central question of this paper is to examine the potential benefits of reforms in tax policy and administration. This generates more optimism about the possibilities of raising additional revenues.
Citation
Moore, M. Obstacles to Increasing Tax Revenuesin Low Income Countries. ICTD Working Paper 15. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK (2013) 42 pp. ISBN 978-1-78118-141-6
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