Cover -- About the Authors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Why does tax matter? -- Introduction -- A ground-level view of taxation in Africa -- Taxing Africa: what are the big questions? -- This book -- 2. A new tax era in Africa? -- Financing colonial...

Although increasingly justified in terms of statebuilding, recent tax reforms in anglophone Africa contributed only modestly to that goal. They have produced impressive tax agencies, but no detectable increases in revenue collections. They have not addressed some major deficiencies in tax policy...