First Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures: Indonesia and Liberia
24 October 2024 | 13.00-14.30 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
GTETI,
Tax Expenditures,
Transparency
The first virtual meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures provided a high-level overview of tax expenditures governance, featuring two compelling presentations from Liberia and Indonesia.
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ATI Follow-up Technical Meeting on Tax Expenditures (Asia)
7-9 May 2024 | Kathmandu, Nepal | By Invitation
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Asia,
Tax Expenditures
The Follow-up Technical Meeting on Tax Expenditures with a focus on Asia will provide a platform to discuss the tools and methods required for tackling the more technical aspects of tax expenditure estimation, reporting, and evaluation in the region.
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ATI Follow-up Technical Meeting on Tax Expenditures (East Africa)
6-8 December 2023 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | By Invitation
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
The Follow-up Technical Meeting on Tax Expenditures held in Tanzania provided a platform to discuss the tools and methods required for tackling the more technical aspects of tax expenditure estimation, reporting, and evaluation in the region.
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ATI Follow-up Technical Meeting on Tax Expenditures (West Africa)
18-20 September 2023 | Accra, Ghana | By Invitation
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
The Follow-up Technical Meeting on Tax Expenditures to be held in Accra, Ghana, provided an opportunity to discuss the tools and methods required for tackling the more technical aspects of tax expenditure estimation, reporting, and evaluation in the region.
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ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures (Asia): Key Takeaways
1-3 March 2023 | Manila, Philippines
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
The ATI Regional Workshop on tax expenditures with a focus on Asia brought together nearly 60 participants from 13 countries who shared a common commitment to enhancing national frameworks in the tax expenditure field.
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ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures (East Africa) – Estimation, Reporting and Evaluation
18-19 October 2022 | Nairobi, Kenya
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
With around 50 participants from 9 countries attending, the workshop proved the growing engagement of different stakeholders in the region concerning the topic of tax expenditures monitoring and reform.
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First ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures (West Africa)
27-28 July 2022 | Lagos, Nigeria
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
First in the series focused on West Africa, with around 70 participants from 18 countries attending, the First ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures held in Nigeria (Lagos, 27-28 July, 2022) provided insightful discussions and takeaways...
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Tax Expenditures and Domestic Revenue Mobilisation
9-11 November 2021 | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Informality,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
Tax expenditures (TEs) are tax benefits that governments use worldwide to pursue various policy goals such as attracting investment, boosting innovation and fighting poverty. TEs are costly, as they lower government revenue and the tax liability of the beneficiary. The global average of tax revenues
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Globalization and Digitalization – Interconnections Between Taxation, Trade and Investment
3, 10, 17, 24 June and 1 July, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Services Trade,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes
Recent decades have witnessed structural changes in the way production is organized. Trade and investment liberalization together with technological developments, notably in transport and communications, have substantially reduced trade and foreign investment costs and enabled global value chains, supported by global finance, to proliferate. As
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Tax Incentives for Investment. Old and New Challenges for International Trade
24 June, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Incentives
Despite their stated goals including attracting FDI, creating employment and boosting R&D and innovation, tax incentives for investment are often ineffective. Indeed, several provisions are redundant and hence end-up triggering costly windfall gains. They can also trigger negative spillover effects on third countries, e.g. when
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