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, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The OECD staff with responsibility for producing the publication were: Leonie Cedano, Emmanuelle Modica, Talita Yamashiro Fordelone, Melary Muñoz Rodriguez and Koji Ono of CTP under the supervision of the Director Pascal Saint-Amans, Deputy Director Grace Perez-Navarro, the Head of the Tax Policy and Tax Statistics Division, David Bradbury, Alexander Pick, Acting Head, Tax Data and Statistical Analysis and Michelle Harding, Head, Tax Data and Statistical Analysis; and Jingjing Xia of DEV under the supervision of the Director Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Deputy Directors Ayumi Yuasa and Federico Bonaglia and Kensuke Tanaka, Head of the Asia Unit. The special feature was written by Yothin Jinjarak, Donghyun Park and Shu Tian (Asian Development Bank) and Sam Hill (World Bank). 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 from OECD, ADB, PITAA and SPC for their invaluable help in preparing this publication. Advice and support were provided by Daisuke Miura, Public Management Specialist (Taxation), Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC), and Go Nagata, Public Management Specialist (Taxation), SDCC, at the ADB; Nilima Lal, Economic Statistics Advisor at the SPC; Koni Ravono, Head of Secretariat, and Petero Maivucevuce, Training Coordinator at PITAA; Piera Tortora at the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate; Piet Battiau, Bert Brys, Kurt Van Dender, Luisa Dressler, Pierce O’Reilly and Sarah Perret at the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration; and Sean Dougherty at the OECD Public Governance Directorate. The authors would also 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.
This document was produced with financial support from the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, 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, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.