Non‑tax revenue trends, 2000‑2017

A complete picture of public finances requires statistics that go beyond taxation, especially in the case of many African countries that obtain substantial revenues in the form of grants or royalties from oil and minerals. Revenue Statistics in Africa collects statistics on both tax and non-tax revenues, non-tax revenues being government revenues that do not meet the OECD definition of taxation. Although data on non-tax revenues might not come from the same sources or have the same reliability as tax statistics (see Box 2.1) they need to be included in any accounting of a country’s total financial resources. This chapter therefore provides cross-country comparisons of non-tax revenue data for the countries included in this publication                              