Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific is jointly produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTP) and the OECD Development Centre (DEV) with the co-operation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Pacific Island Tax Administrators Association (PITAA), and the Pacific Community (SPC), with financial support from the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The authors would like to thank the ADB, PITAA and SPC for co-organising with the OECD a technical webinar held on 8 April 2021, which informed the analysis in this year’s edition.1
The staff with responsibility for producing the publication were: Michelle Harding, Head, Tax Data and Statistical Analysis, Emmanuelle Modica, Statistician/Analyst, Leonie Cedano, Statistician/Junior Analyst, Talita Yamashiro Fordelone, Advisor and Koji Ono, Senior Advisor, Global Relations of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration under the supervision of the Director Pascal Saint-Amans, Deputy Director Grace Perez-Navarro and the Head of the Tax Policy and Tax Statistics Division David Bradbury; Jingjing Xia of the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of the Director and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development, Mario Pezzini, Deputy Director Federico Bonaglia, Kensuke Tanaka, Head of the Asia Unit, and Alexander Pick, Coordinator of Revenue Statistics for the Development Centre. The special feature was written by Daisuke Miura, Public Management Specialist (Taxation), SDCC, and Go Nagata, Public Management Specialist (Taxation), SDCC, at the ADB.Elizabeth Nash and Delphine Grandrieux at DEV and Marie-Aurélie Elkurd, Karena Garnier and Natalie Lagorce at CTP assisted with the production and publication of this report.
The authors would like to thank other officials for their invaluable help in completing this publication. Advice and support were provided by Nilima Lal, Economic Statistics Advisor at the SPC; Koni Ravono, Head of Secretariat, and Petero Maivucevuce, Training Coordinator at PITAA; by Piera Tortora, Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate; by Bert Brys, Dimitra Koulouri, Hakim Hamadi, Joseph Stead, Koji Ono, Oliver Petzold, Peter Green, Pierce O'Reilly, Piet Battiau, Rex Arendsen, Sarah Perret and Stéphane Buydens at the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. The authors would like to thank colleagues working in national administrations with whom they have consulted regularly. These institutions include finance ministries, national tax agencies and national statistical institutes of the participating countries. The authors are also very grateful to all participants at the technical webinar on 8 April 2021.
This document was produced with financial support from the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion or policies of the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.