Why property tax reforms fail: Lessons from Tanzania
Over the past two decades, property tax administration in Tanzania has undergone substantial changes, shifting between decentralized and centralized collection models. However, despite numerous reform initiatives, these efforts have largely failed to boost tax revenues and improve property tax administration. This CMI (in collaboration with REPOA) Insight outlines five reasons why these reforms have not […]
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment
on corruption in Tanzania
Although there seems to be a consensus that a resource curse often exists (with the notable exceptions of Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) and van der Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010)), the empirical literature faces greater challenges in establishing why natural resource wealth is often associated with undesirable outcomes, because cross-country comparisons are plagued with endogeneity issues […]
Non-resource taxation in a resource rich setting
A broader tax base will enhance tax compliance in Tanzania Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. The country might become a large producer of gas, and a potential exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) during the next decades.