Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Economies 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) and the financial support of the European Union and the government of Japan. The partners would like to thank PITAA and the ADB for co-organising with the OECD a technical workshop in Nadi, Fiji on 7-8 December 2017, with financial support from the European Union. PITAA and SPC have also provided invaluable support and advice in expanding the coverage of this publication to the Pacific region.
The staff with responsibility for producing the publication were: Kensuke Tanaka, Head of Asia Desk, Jingjing Xia, Statistician, Prasiwi Ibrahim, Economist, and Alexander Pick, Coordinator at the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of the Director of the Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development Mario Pezzini; Michelle Harding, Head, Tax Data and Statistical Analysis, Emmanuelle Modica, Statistician/Analyst, Leonie Beisemann, Statistician, Talita Yamashiro Fordelone, Advisor and Osamu Yoshida, Deputy Head, 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. The special feature benefited from useful inputs, based on “A Comparative Analysis of Tax Administration in Asia and the Pacific 2018 Edition” from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), provided by Donghyun Park, Principal Economist, Yasushi Suzuki, Public Management Specialist, and Yuji Miyaki, Public Management Specialist. Inputs were also provided by Sybrand Brekelmans, Intern at the Asia Desk, OECD Development Centre. Elizabeth Nash, Delphine Grandrieux, at DEV 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 other officials for their invaluable help in completing this publication. Support was also provided by Piera Tortora, Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate; Policy Officer Vincent Bigot, Head of Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Sector Stefan Agne, Head of Budget Support, Public Finance Management, Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Unit Erica Gerretsen at the European Commission; Team leader Economic Cooperation and Agriculture Section Emmanuelle Guiheneuf, Programme Manager Budget Support Marga Peeters, and Programme Manager Economic Cooperation and Agriculture Section Shaleshni Prasad at the Delegation of the European Union for the Pacific; Regional Economic Adviser Guillaume Barraut at the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand; Nilima Lal, Economic Statistics Advisor at the Pacific Community (SPC); Koni Ravono, Head of Secretariat, and Petero Maivucevuce, Training Coordinator at PITAA; as well as Koichoro Aritoshi, Rokiah Bakar, Assel Baltabayeva, Dariya Bissengaliyeva, Gil Beltran, Rowena Sta Clara, Meirbekov Daniyar, Kenneth Lee, Zhi Wei Lim, Datuk Haji Mohd Esa Abd Manaf, Mohammad Reezal Ahmad, Brian McAuley, Teresa Mendoza, Amir Abdul Mutalib Shaari, Rena Nagayama, Hui Li Ng, Kunta Nugraha, Kumara Candra, Ratri Raden, Punjung Raras, Jiehui Shen, Hiroto Sugano, Adzhar Sulaiman, Joanne Tan, Mui Choo Teng, Suryani Widarta, Zarina Yerkebayeva, Dauren Zakumbayev, Marsidi Zelika, Shaun Bayne, Siva Gounder, Fraser Hawkins, Xavier Mitchell, Shiri Gounder, Shavindra Nath, Rhoda Karl, Hiyemute Waine, Jeannie Chadwick, Ian Filemu, Andrew Bryan Tafua Stratton, Eric D Saelea, Gibson Sanau, Sarah Wickham, Ajchara Chidkrue, Inthu-on Whangprasert, Iapi Japerse, Alan Shaw. The authors are also very grateful to all participants at the technical workshop in Nadi, Fiji in December 2017 as well as to colleagues working in national governments with whom they consulted regularly. These institutions include the finance ministries of Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Thailand and Tokelau’s National Statistics Office and the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia.
This document was produced with financial support from 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.