Comparative Series on Tax Administration

With few exceptions, tax administration bodies in the Asia-Pacific region face considerable challenges in ensuring compliance with tax laws and achieving government revenue-raising objectives. One way ADB can assist tax bodies in carrying out their mandate is through the provision of timely information concerning the frameworks, approaches, planned developments, and performance of tax bodies within the region, along with high level data assessment of their performance over time. This presentation explains how ADB goes about this task and, importantly, outlines the findings emerging from the work currently underway to complete a new comparative series.