International Centre for Tax and Development

International Centre for Tax and Development

Abbreviation	ICTD
Motto	Widening the debate on tax and development
Formation	2010
Type	research centre
Headquarters	Library Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RE
Location	Brighton, United Kingdom
CEO	Mick Moore (political economist)
Website	www.ictd.ac

The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) is a research centre based at the Institute of Development Studies, and funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. Founded in 2010 with close to £6 million in funding, its mission is to generate knowledge that will help developing countries to mobilise domestic resources efficiently, effectively, and equitably, and develop tax systems that promote good governance and pro-poor economic growth.^[1][2]

Towards these ends, the ICTD fosters a network of social science researchers from developing countries to engage with taxation issues by funding research, building research capacity through courses and workshops, and collaborating with a range of partners including the African Tax Administration Forum, the Institute for Security Studies, and the Chr. Michelsen Institute.^[3][4][5] It also aims to disseminate its research evidence to policymakers through its publications and annual centre meetings in Africa.^[6][7] By sharing its research findings, the ICTD aims to widen the public debate on taxation and governance in developing countries.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Research

The ICTD's research aims to generate knowledge to help develop better tax systems in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, the ICTD conducts and provides grants for research along the following themes:

• International Tax
• Local Government Tax
• Tax Administration and Reform
• Taxpayer Compliance and Perceptions
• Informal Sector Tax
• Natural Resource Tax
• Taxation in Post-Conflict States
• Cross-National Tax Data and Econometrics

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]}

Publications

ICTD has published and supported the publication of many working papers, policy briefings, journal articles, and books. In January 2015, a report written by the ICTD's CEO Mick Moore and ATAF's Nara Monkam was published about how property tax would benefit Africa, which was subsequently discussed by The Africa Report.^[22]

References

External links

• Official website