Preaching tax morality, practicing tax avoidance

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Donors demand that recipient country governments clean up their tax administration systems as a way of expanding state revenues and fighting corruption. Yet donors refuse to pay taxes in the developing countries where they provide aid. The author sheds light on a murky corner of the aid business.

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Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

Research Professor, Coordinator: Tax and Public Finance

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