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Revenue Statistics in Africa is a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the African Tax Administration Forum and the African Union Commission, with the technical support of the African Development Bank and the Cercle de réflexion et d’échange des dirigeants des administrations fiscales and with the financial support of the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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Achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 require mobilising additional finance, in particular domestic resources, to fund public goods and services. This report presents internationally comparable indicators on tax and non‑tax revenues that can be used to track progress on domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) and to inform tax policy analysis and future reform. Additionally, it provides an important backdrop in understanding the fiscal capacity of the African region to respond to the COVI D‑19 crisis. The report and its data also contribute to the implementation of the Pan‑A frican Statistics Programme, a joint effort between the European Union and the African Union to support statistical capacity in Africa.
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Achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 requires mobilising additional finance, in particular domestic resources, to fund public goods and services. Taxation provides a predictable and sustainable source of government revenue, in contrast with the volatility of other important sources of public revenues, such as official development assistance and mineral royalties.
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A complete picture of public finances requires statistics that go beyond taxation, especially in the case of many African countries that obtain substantial revenues in the form of grants or royalties from oil and minerals. Revenue Statistics in Africa collects statistics on both tax and non-tax revenues, non-tax revenues being government revenues that do not meet the OECD definition of taxation. Although data on non-tax revenues might not come from the same sources or have the same reliability as tax statistics (see Box 2.1), they need to be included in any accounting of a country’s total financial resources. This chapter provides cross-country comparisons of non-tax revenues for the countries in this publication.
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