Minimum Standards for Tax Expenditure Reporting: FfD4 Side Event in Seville
3 July 2025 |10.30-12.00 CET | Seville | Open to registered participants
Conferences,
Fiscal | Tags:
Development,
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Tax Expenditures
Governments worldwide use preferential tax treatments – called tax expenditures – to pursue different policy objectives. These measures cause huge immediate public revenue losses while their effectiveness is often in doubt.
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Fifth Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures
5 June 2025 | 13.00-14.30 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Brazil,
Development,
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Tax Expenditures
In the context of the Fourth Financing for Development process (FfD4), the meeting highlighted lessons learnt regarding domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries.
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U.S. Energy Policy at a Crossroads
Luke Hatton and
Patrick Lenain | 28 May 2025
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Energy,
Fossil Fuel Subsidies,
Renewables,
United States
U.S. energy policy is at a crossroads. While both the Biden and Trump Administrations have made energy affordability and security a key priority, their strategies differ drastically.
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Economic Policies for Affordable, Secure and Clean Energy: Insights from the United States
Luke Hatton and
Patrick Lenain | 28 May 2025
Fiscal,
Policy Briefs | Tags:
Energy,
Fossil Fuel Subsidies,
Renewables,
United States
In the United States, a diverse range of policy initiatives, many of which can be implemented at the state and local levels, are available to continue the transition towards an affordable, secure, and clean energy system.
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The Global Tax Expenditures Database Keeps Growing: Discover the New Features
Council on Economic Policies | 6 May 2025
Fiscal,
News | Tags:
GTED,
Tax Expenditures
The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) released the latest version of the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED) with expanded coverage and enhanced functionality. The update incorporates two additional countries, Egypt and Zambia, bringing the total to
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Shedding Light on the Use of Tax Expenditures for Social Spending
Flurim Aliu and
Agustin Redonda | 5 May 2025
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Inequality,
Social Protecion,
Tax Expenditures
When we think of government spending on social programmes, we generally picture direct cash transfers, public healthcare, education and subsidized housing. Yet a significant portion of social spending happens outside the traditional budget.
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A Renewed Urgency to Rationalize Tax Expenditures in Low- and Low-Middle Income Countries
Sanjeev Gupta and
Agustin Redonda | 16 April 2025
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
In this blog, we argue that the case for streamlining and reforming TEs has become even more urgent. This urgency arises from recent developments including the decisions by the United States and the United Kingdom to significantly reduce their international aid budgets...
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Economic Policies for Affordable, Secure and Clean Energy: Insights from India
Priya Sahu and
Nirosha Elsem Varghese | 3 April 2025
Fiscal,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Energy,
Fossil Fuel Subsidies,
India,
Renewables
India is making significant strides toward affordable, secure and clean energy with the help of ambitious economic policy packages. Yet, like in other countries, many challenges remain.
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Fourth Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures
3 April 2025 | 16.00-17.30 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
The focus of the meeting was the impact of tax expenditures on the environment and implications for climate change, with inputs from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as the Ministry of Finance of Costa Rica.
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