Revenue Statistics in Africa has been jointly produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTP), the OECD Development Centre (DEV), the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) and the African Union Commission (AUC), with the technical support of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Cercle de réflexion et d’échange des dirigeants des administrations fiscales (CREDAF), the European Commission and the World Customs Organisation (WCO). The staff from these organisations with responsibility for producing the publication were: Emmanuelle Modica, Leonie Cedano, Talita Yamashiro Fordelone, Michael Sharratt and Michelle Harding of CTP under the supervision of the Director Pascal Saint-Amans, the Deputy Director Grace Perez-Navarro and the Head of the Tax Policy and Tax Statistics Division David Bradbury; Sébastien Markley, Arthur Minsat and Alexander Pick of DEV under the supervision of the Director of the Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development Mario Pezzini, and of the Senior Communications Manager Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte; Director of Research at ATAF Nara Monkam; Dossina Yeo, Head of Economic Policy and Research Division, Jean Bertrand Azapmo, Regional Trade Adviser and Jose Awong Alene, Statistician at the AUC; Chaouch Anouar, Statistician at AfDB under the Director of Statistics Department Charles Leyeka Lufumpa, and Koua Louis Kouakou at AfDB,Manager of Economic and Social Statistics Division; Thomas Cantens, Technical Officer at WCO under the direction of Head of Research and Strategies Unit Robert Ireland; Secretary General Jean-Marc Niel of CREDAF; Policy Officer Vincent Bigot, Policy Officer Gaëlle Doléans, Head of Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Sector Stefan Agne and Head of Budget Support, Public Finance Management, Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Unit Erica Gerretsen at the European Commission. Dossina Yeo and Jean Bertrand Azapmo (AUC) authored the Special Feature in collaboration with DEV and CTP (Chapter Chapter 3). Elizabeth Nash and Delphine Grandrieux at DEV and Alexandra Le Cam and Marie-Aurélie Elkurd at CTP assisted with the production and publication of this report and Stephanie Coic produced the cover.
The authors would like to thank the officials at the finance ministries, national tax agencies and national statistical institutes of the countries participating in this project who gathered and compiled the national data and provided their invaluable knowledge and expertise on their country’s revenue collection systems and data. In particular, the authors would like to thank the focal points appointed for each country and their colleagues who facilitated the technical work: Seitebaleng Fologang and Winstern Kabo for Botswana; Mariame Dabo and Michel Yaméogo for Burkina Faso; Carlos José Oliveira Bentub and Hamilton Cabral Fortes for Cabo Verde; Dorothy Agbor, Edouard Kalawa, and Stéphane Nepetsoun for Cameroon; Yacouba Fofana and Alex Koula Pouhe for Côte d’Ivoire; Christophe Bitasimwa Bahii, Liliane Bilonda, Elisabeth Dikisha Dietu, Dieudonné Bukasa Kabongo, Floribert Masuku Mambambu, Yvette Barhashishwa Shabani Mwangu, and Richard Kabila Mutshi for the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Aya Abdel-Aziz, Alaa Abdel-Rahman, and Ali Hammad for Egypt; Bindang Ndong Okiri for Equatorial Guinea; Eric Thembinkosi Dlamini, Mvuselelo B. Mdluli, Khulekani Innocent Mncina, and Yvonne Ntfombiyenkhosi Mthombo for Eswatini; Asuo Afram and Francis Bright Mensah for Ghana; Alex Mwangi for Kenya; Vololonirina Léa Randrianarisoa and Donah for Madagascar; Siaka Samaké and Boubacar Diakité for Mali; Mohamed Falilou Gueye, Aw Abdel Kerim and Abdoulaye Sarr for Mauritania; Meeshrani Balgobin and Roshan Oree for Mauritius; El Moustapha Bennani and Abderrahim Mezroui for Morocco; Salissou Malam Souley for Niger; Sunusi Gwaram Shuaibu for Nigeria; Marie-Claire Mabourou and Frédéric Ngolele for the Republic of the Congo; Roy Valence Gasangwa and Agnes Kanyangeyo for Rwanda; Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Ba, Papa Diouf, Mamadou Cissé, Abdoulaye Sow, and Souleymane Thiam for Senegal; Dick Labonte and Yvette Campanella-Rumbos for Seychelles; Mampho Baholo, Paul Dreyer, Lawrence Gqesha, Mamiky Leolo, Tshepo Makgoro, Denis Marais, Nontokozo Mnqayi, Vivienne Smithdorf, and Darlington Zhou for South Africa; Ouro-Adoï Abdelganiou and Imrane Moussa for Togo; Saoussen Boumaiza, Raja Hadj Khalifa and Rihab Ben Challadia for Tunisia; and Ronald Nyenje Makumbi and Milly Isongoma Nalukwago for Uganda.
The authors also wish to express their appreciation to DEV and CTP colleagues for commenting on drafts and providing technical assistance.
Finally, the partners would like to thank the Kenya Revenue Authority, the European Commission, ATAF and the AUC that hosted, organised and funded the technical workshop in Nairobi, Kenya (November 2018).
This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union or of its member countries.