Tax Expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Expensive Practice?
Li Liu,
Todd Schneider,
Can Sever and
Irena Jankulov Suljagic | 27 November 2025
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Sub-Saharan Africa,
Tax Expenditures Tax expenditures are less well understood in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other regions, and deserve closer attention given the region’s macro-fiscal challenges. A new IMF paper sheds some additional light on TEs in SSA, their potential importance to domestic revenue mobilization, and offers a roadmap for reform.
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How Vietnam Can Ensure Greener Steel
Patrick Lenain and
Deepak Sharma | 21 November 2025
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Decarbonization,
Energy,
Industrial Policy,
Vietnam The steel industry is an important pillar of Vietnam’s economic development. It provides input for the country’s rapid infrastructure expansion, it supports key manufacturing sectors such as construction and shipbuilding, and it contributes to export revenues and industrial employment.
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The Energy Taxation Directive and the Clean Industrial Deal
Patrick Lenain | 20 November 2025
Fiscal,
Testimonies | Tags:
Decarbonization,
Energy,
Europe,
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thank you for the opportunity to speak today on the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD) and the Clean Industrial Deal (CID). I will start with brief remarks on the ETD and then turn to lessons the CID could draw from global experience with the use of
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Accelerating Industrial Decarbonisation. The Role of Tax Incentives
Flurim Aliu,
Sofia Berg,
Luke Hatton,
Patrick Lenain,
Agustin Redonda,
Magd Shamashan and
Nirosha Elsem Varghese | 17 November 2025
Fiscal,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Decarbonization,
Energy,
Industrial Policy,
Tax Expenditures Achieving net-zero targets in industrial sectors will require substantial investment in low-carbon technologies, especially in “hard-to-abate” industries such as steel, cement, and petrochemicals. In this context, tax incentives have emerged as a useful policy instrument ...
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Tax Expenditures for Environmental Sustainability
Agustin Redonda,
Christian von Haldenwang and
Sofia Berg | 13 November 2025
Fiscal,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
GTED,
Sustainability,
Tax Expenditures This report analyses tax expenditures aimed at promoting environmentally sustainable practices. Drawing on the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED) and a number of specific international experiences, it explores how these instruments are currently being used and evaluated.
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Flagship Report 2025 on Tax Expenditure Effectiveness: Launch Event and New GTETI Release
4 December 2025 | 14.00-16.30 CET | Online Conference,
Fiscal | Tags:
GTED,
GTETI,
Tax Expenditures The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) co-hosted the launch of the Tax Expenditures Flagship Report 2025 and the new edition of the Global Tax Expenditures Transparency Index
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Sanaenomics: Bridging Abenomics and New Capitalism
Matthew Poggi | 5 November 2025
Monetary,
Op-Eds | Tags:
Economic Growth,
Governing Finance,
Japan Sanae Takaichi begins her tenure as prime minister of Japan with a rare combination of political momentum and market confidence. Her inaugural public-support rating exceeds that of her recent predecessors, and equities have risen nearly 10% since she became leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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