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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, the World Customs Organisation and the Centre de rencontres et d’études des dirigeants des administrations fiscales and the financial support of the European Union.
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Revenue Statistics in Africa provides internationally comparable data on tax and non-tax revenues for 16 African countries: Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia and Uganda. It also includes a special chapter on domestic resource mobilisation and external financial flows in Africa.
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In light of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, awareness of the need to mobilise government revenue in developing countries to fund public goods and services is increasing. Taxation provides a predictable and sustainable source of government revenue, in contrast with the volatility of development assistance and mineral royalties.
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A key rationale behind the Revenue Statistics in Africa project is the desire to meet the need for better and more comparable datasets on government revenues in African countries. The aim is to support an improved understanding of the progress that African countries are making in mobilising domestic resources for development. The generation of savings by a government internally, especially through taxation, instead of through external sources such as loans, grants, aid or remittances, provides a more stable source of revenue over time.
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