Tax revenue trends, 2008‑2017

Achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda call for 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. This report presents an internationally comparable set of indicators on tax and non-tax revenues which can be used to track progress on domestic resource mobilisation (as envisaged in the SDGs, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda as well as related initiatives such as the Addis Tax Initiative) and to inform tax policy and reform.                             