As a result of the failure to meet tax collection targets, policymakers, economists, and financiers have focused their attention in recent years on how a country's tax effort has been employed to combat tax evasion and maximise tax collections for economic growth. The study looked at the nexus...

The study explores the nonlinear linkage between government expenditure and government revenue using quarterly data from the first quarter of 1965 to the second quarter of 2019. Linear models are first deployed to determine the order of integration of the variables, cointegration, granger...

The IMF Fiscal Affairs Department's Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP) assists revenue administrations from IMF member countries in monitoring taxpayer compliance through tax gap analysis. The RA-GAP analytical framework for estimating excise gaps presented in this Technical...

The IMF Fiscal Affairs Department's Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP) assists revenue administrations from IMF member countries in monitoring taxpayer compliance through tax gap analysis. The RA-GAP methodology for estimating the VAT gap presented in this Technical Note has...

This note discusses administrative measures that can be implemented by customs administrations of low-income and fragile countries in a short period (about a year) to improve traders' compliance and improve revenue collection. These suggested actions have been identified based on the experience...