30-March-2021
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A preview released today of the OECD’s Effective Carbon Rates 2021 report looks at the excise taxes, carbon taxes and emissions permit prices that effectively result in a carbon price in the 44 OECD and G20 countries, which account for 80% of global carbon emissions from energy.
17-February-2021
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Jonas Teusch and Konstantinos Theodoropoulos (OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration) explore the issue in their joint Development Matters blog post on taxing energy use for sustainable development.
25-January-2021
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This report presents results for 15 developing and emerging market economies. The results include data and indicators to support carbon pricing reforms in these countries, and compares their macro-economic and policy context to OECD countries.
17-December-2020
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Statistics on tax revenue are the foundation for analysis of tax and customs policies. Comparable and reliable statistics are critical to undertake such analysis and to develop better tax policies. The new Global Revenue Statistics Database is a major progress in providing comparable and reliable tax revenue data for a large coverage of countries from all regions of the world.
26-November-2020
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26-November-2020
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By Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, and Henry Peter, Head, Geneva Centre for Philanthropy
25-November-2020
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This country note explains how the Netherlands taxes energy use. The note shows the distribution of effective energy tax rates across all domestic energy use. It also details the country-specific assumptions made when calculating effective energy tax rates and matching tax rates to the corresponding energy base.
23-November-2020
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In response to a request from the Minister of Finance of Chile, a remote mission was conducted by a joint team of staff from the IMF and the OECD secretariat from April to October 2020. The mission's main purpose was to assist the Minister of Finance with technical support to review Chile's tax expenditure methodology and its corrective excise taxes. This report reflects the findings of the mission.
5-November-2020
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The fifth edition of the tax policy publication Revenue Statistics in Africawill be launched on Thursday, 12 November 2020. The report provides an overview of the main taxation trends from 1990 to 2018 in 30 countries, including Chad, Lesotho, Malawi, and Namibia for the first time.
29-October-2020
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By Elsa Pilichowski, Director of OECD Public Governance, and Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.