Making Green Tax Incentives Work: Protecting Revenue While Accelerating the Energy Transition
2 June 2026 | 13.00-14.30 CEST | Online Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Energy,
Policy Coherence,
Tax Expenditures Achieving global climate goals requires a rapid and just green transition, especially in emerging and developing economies where industrial decarbonisation and renewable energy deployment remain urgent priorities.
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Why Tax Expenditure Reporting Is a Missing Link in Financing for Development
Alexandra Readhead,
Agustin Redonda,
Christian von Haldenwang,
Giovanni Occhiali,
Giulia Mascagni and
Harshil Parekh | 21 April 2026
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
GTED,
Tax Expenditures With aid budgets shrinking and debt vulnerabilities mounting, the $4 trillion governments forgo annually through exemptions, credits, and preferential rates demands greater transparency and accountability.
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8th Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures: Assessments and Reform
16 April 2026 | 14.00-15.30 CEST | Online Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Brazil,
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Tax Expenditures,
Uruguay,
VAT The 8th virtual CoP meeting put a spotlight on assessments and reform experiences related to tax expenditures, particularly in Brazil and Uruguay.
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Governing Tax Expenditures: Lessons from Four Advanced and Emerging Market Economies
Sofia Berg,
Sanjeev Gupta and
Agustin Redonda | 2 March 2026
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Brazil,
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
France,
India,
Tax Expenditures,
United Kingdom This blog builds on four Tax Expenditures Country Reports published within the series hosted by CEP and IDOS, and shows how Brazil, France, India, and the United Kingdom govern tax expenditures across three critical dimensions: benchmark definition, reporting, and evaluation.
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7th Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures: Tax Gap Analysis with TE Data
26 February 2026 | 15.00-16.30 CET | Online Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
GTED,
Tax Expenditures The latest meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures (CoP), organised in cooperation with the ATI Community of Interest on Tax Gap, focused on tax gap analysis with particular emphasis on the use of TE data.
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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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Sixth Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures
30 September 2025 | 13.00-14.30 CET | Online Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Rwanda,
Tax Expenditures,
The Netherlands The sixth virtual meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures (TEs) showcased benchmarking experiences from the Ministries of Finance of Rwanda and the Netherlands.
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Bringing Tax Expenditures Into the Debate on Financing for Development
Christian von Haldenwang | 23 July 2025
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Development,
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Tax Expenditures Tax expenditures have traditionally been considered an issue governments are supposed to deal with by themselves. This, however, is changing. The recent Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) FfD4 explicitly refers to tax expenditures in its Outcome Document.
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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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