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Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific is a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration and the OECD Development Centre with the co-operation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Pacific Island Tax Administrators Association (PITAA), and the Pacific Community (SPC), and with financial support from the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It presents detailed, internationally comparable data on tax revenues for 30 Asian and Pacific economies: Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Georgia, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Malaysia, the Maldives, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tokelau, Vanuatu and Viet Nam. It also provides information on non-tax revenues for Bhutan, Cambodia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kazakhstan, KyrgyzstanNote by the ADB: The ADB recognises “Kyrgyzstan” as the “Kyrgyz Republic”., Lao PDR, the Maldives, Mongolia, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Thailand, Tokelau, Vanuatu and Viet Nam. Four of these economies are OECD members (Australia, Japan, Korea and New Zealand). The approach used in Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific is based on the well-established methodology of the OECD Interpretative Guide which has become an essential reference source for OECD member countries. Comparisons are also made with the averages for OECD economies, Latin American and Caribbean countries and 31 countries currently included in Revenue Statistics in Africa 2023.
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Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific presents key indicators to track progress on domestic resource mobilisation in the region and to inform tax policy reforms that could help close the financing gap to fund the Sustainable Development Goals. This tenth edition of the report provides comprehensive data on public revenues in the Asia-Pacific region up to 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Chapter 1 provides information on tax and non-tax revenues in 30 Asian and Pacific economies, including tax-to-GDP ratios for the region as a whole, sub-regions and for individual economies. It also contains information on tax structures, tax revenues by level of government and environmentally related tax revenues, as well as on the level and structure of non-tax revenues for selected economies in the region. The chapter includes data up to 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and tracks trends in tax and non-tax revenues across the region since 2010.
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Recurrent taxes on property can be an important source of revenues, especially for local government. This chapter shows the level of revenues these taxes generate across Asia and it examines the base of these taxes as well as how they are administered. It then identifies constraints on recurrent property taxation in the region and options for how these limitations might be overcome.
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