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Tax for Development: Can the IMF and G20 Help Mobilize More Domestic Resources?

Tax for Development: Can the IMF and G20 Help Mobilize More Domestic Resources?. Michael Keen, IMF CSO Policy Forum, WB/IMF Spring Meetings April 14,2011. What we do : About 100 missions annually, plus 7 regional centers. Has been improvement since early 1990s:

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Tax for Development: Can the IMF and G20 Help Mobilize More Domestic Resources?

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  1. Tax for Development: Can the IMF and G20 Help Mobilize More Domestic Resources? Michael Keen, IMF CSO Policy Forum, WB/IMF Spring Meetings April 14,2011

  2. What we do: About 100 missions annually, plus 7 regional centers

  3. Has been improvement since early 1990s: …reflecting stronger VAT and CIT, reduced trade revenues—trends since early 1980s

  4. From the Board Paper • Taxation is about more than revenue: efficiency, fairness, ‘state building’ • Fairness matters both in itself and for sustainability of tax regime • Assessing it can be hard: Who really pays the corporate tax? • And needs to be considered jointly with spending side—could do better • Taxing elites important and hard

  5. State building: Yes, but what’s different? • ‘Informality’ not the best way to think of the problem—focus on non-compliance • Beware ‘fads’—this is a hard slog • Institutions matter: Transparency and tax policy units • Political will not enough unless sustained

  6. Paper doesn’t cover resource taxation, but:

  7. G20 request Seeks reflections on: • Overcoming capacity constraints • Knowledge platform and South-South cooperation • Take stock of IO’s actions • Measures to track administrative progress • Transfer pricing Responses will draw on IMF conferences in Nairobi and (this weekend) DC; comments invited online.

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