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Journal Article | 2009

Preaching tax morality, practicing tax avoidance

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (2009)
in Development Today vol. 19 no. 9-10. p.11
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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
  • odd.fjeldstad@cmi.no
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  • Taxation
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Also by this author:

Journal Article | forthcoming 2021

Citizens’ preferences for taxation of internationally mobile corporations: Evidence from Tanzania

Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig & Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

Review of Development Economics

Journal Article | forthcoming 2021

Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania

Alexander Cappelen, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Donald Mmari, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen and Bertil Tungodden

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

See also:

Report in External Series | 2020

Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for revenue generation in poor African countries

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Ole Therkildsen

Journal Article | 2020

The non-oil tax reform in Angola: Escaping from petroleum dependency?

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Aslak Orre and Francisco Paulo

The Extractive Industries and Society

Journal Article | 2020

Does an economics education produce technocratic paternalists? Experimental evidence from Tanzania

Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

Journal of Development Studies

Journal Article | 2020

The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Cecilia Kagoma, Ephraim Mdee, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen, Vincent Somville

World Development

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