Digital Revolutions in Taxation Read more about Digital Revolutions in Taxation Digitalization has vast potential for tax policy and revenue administration. Increased access to information, enhanced digital systems, and greater processing capabilities will allow for reductions in the cost of tax collection and compliance and lead to new tax policy options. Based on the latest work of the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department on digitalization revolutions in public finance, this presentation discusses implications of digitalization for tax policy and revenue administration, including the challenges for tax authorities.
Sarak Ros Keywords tax taxation tax collection Read more about Sarak Ros Sarak Ros has been with the General Department of Taxation for more than 10 years. He was also a Lecturer and IT Consultant at the Royal University of Law and Economics.
Guntur Sugiyarto Keywords principal economist nvestment tourism economics labor markets poverty CGE modeling trade liberalization taxation commodity prices biofuel and food security education infrastructure fragility and migration Read more about Guntur Sugiyarto Guntur has published a significant number of papers on a wide range of development issues, such as competitiveness, investment, tourism economics, labor markets, poverty, CGE modeling, trade liberalization, taxation, commodity prices, biofuel and food security, education, infrastructure, fragility, and migration. Before joining ADB in 2004, he worked for the universities of Nottingham and Warwick in the United Kingdom and the Central Bureau of Statistics in Indonesia.
Taxing Properties and Managing Land: The Many Pathways on a Long Journey in the Philippines Read more about Taxing Properties and Managing Land: The Many Pathways on a Long Journey in the Philippines Land management and real property tax reform have at least a forty-year history in the Philippines, underlining the immense political, social, technical, and institutional challenges of reforms in this area. The Asian Development Bank-financed REGALA project and its predecessor, the AusAID-financed Innovation Support Fund (ISF), adopted an approach that combined land management, and real property tax reforms.
Tax Administration Reform in the Maldives Read more about Tax Administration Reform in the Maldives The primary purpose of taxes is to raise revenue to finance government expenditure on public goods and services, including welfare, that markets would not likely deliver. If government is—on balance—a very positive force in society, then so are taxes: they are obligations we must deliver to enjoy vital services and benefits that governments offer in myriad ways.
Building Modern Land Administration Systems Read more about Building Modern Land Administration Systems Efficient and effective land administration underpins the very functioning of states and societies. Imagine a country where, for example, tenure to land cannot be secured or mortgages cannot be established in aid of property development. Across the world, key questions about land are surfacing, and the inability to answer them curtails social and economic development, environmental management, and good governance.