, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone) the tax-and-spend hypothesis holds, since government revenue would drive the expenditure. Finally …

public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this cat-egory. This paper presents an … influencing factors, such as regional patterns, non-tax revenue and governance. Findings on individual countries or groups of … countries should put governments, donors and international organisations in a better position to decide on tax reform programmes …