Critical to the successful mobilisation of domestic resources is a functional state with efficient administrative systems and good governance and an effective tax system. Read More...
These issues were discussed at an International Conference on Taxation, State Building and Development in Africa, which was held in Pretoria, South Africa in August 2008. The conference was sponsored by the revenue authorities of Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.
African countries who attended the conference were: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho. Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
One of the goals of the conference was to get off the ground an African initiative to strengthen tax administrations on the African continent… and so the ATAF seed was planted.