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Excise Tax on Sweetened Beverage

21 February 2018
The excise tax on sweetened beverage is a health tax in the Philippines that helps address diabetes and obesity given the high incidence of obesity and fast-growing incidence of diabetes. It is part of a package of the tax reform program for more inclusive growth and a healthy Philippines.

Developing a Strategic Plan for Domestic Resource Mobilization

21 February 2018
Improving domestic resource mobilization to meet the sustainable development goals involves securing commitment from governments and creating program actions by tax administrations to develop strong tax systems. Download this presentation to learn about the key issues in building tax capacity.

Broadening the Tax Base

20 February 2018
Read about tax expenditures and their revenue cost. Learn how to make tax expenditure reports. Tax expenditures and incentives are widely used in the real world, but most expenditures go far beyond market failures and externalities, and just translate political preferences. While tax expenditures…

Designing Good Tax Policy: A Primer

20 February 2018
An effective tax system allows governments to manage the business cycle through fiscal policy. Some of the objectives of taxation entail minimizing administrative and compliance costs, limiting tax avoidance and tax evasion opportunities, and reflecting simplicity. Download this presentation to…

Tax Policy Analysis and Evidence-Based Tax Reform: Key Indicators for Policy Analysis

20 February 2018
Macroeconomic and microeconomic indicators are useful in tax policy analysis as they provide understanding of the impact of taxes on the economy, and the decisions of individuals and corporations. When analyzing tax policies, it is important to use a range of indicators with complementary strengths…

Monitoring Tax Incentives: Assessing Revenue and Other Impacts

20 February 2018
While tax expenditure reporting is an important first step that provides transparency and estimates of revenue foregone, cost benefit analysis can offer a deeper understanding of the efficiency of particular tax expenditures. Regular monitoring is essential as it ensures that tax expenditures are…

Tax Policy for Domestic Resource Mobilization: Challenges for the Developing World

20 February 2018
Domestic resources are the largest untapped source of financing to fund national development plans. The potential for expansion of domestic resource mobilization (DRM) may be particularly high in Asia and the Pacific, but further efforts are needed to increase tax revenues in developing countries…

Unique Health Identification

5 February 2018
With increasing Universal Health Coverage, expanding health insurance schemes, and the desire for better disease surveillance comes the need for unique health identification. Michael Stahl provides an overview of the status of unique identification in the health sector in ADB member countries and…

Towards Malaria Elimination: ADB-supported Work in Myanmar

25 January 2018
There is no room for malaria in Myanmar. Health expert Valerio Reggi shares Myanmar's moves to eliminate the disease. ADB is helping to strengthen Myanmar's regulatory capacity; ensure effective assessments of medicines; and reduce the risk of substandard and falsified medicines, particularly anti…

Digital Land Registry: A Smart Initiative for Suva, Fiji

25 January 2018
To set the context, this presentation begins with a summary of the relative level of smart maturity across the cities of Bandung, Mandalay, Suva, Tbilisi, and Ulaanbaatar under ADB’s regional technical assistance (TA) 9170, which aims to contribute to promoting smart infrastructure and systems in…