The Power to Govern, the Duty to Account
CENTS Governance Academy

Executive & Specialist Programmes

Tax Design and Domestic Resource Mobilisation

Widening the revenue base without breaking the livelihoods that are the base is the central fiscal problem of a developing economy. We teach it as a craft, with the costing and the incidence analysis that turn a wish into a policy.

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Programme overview

Widening the revenue base without breaking the livelihoods that are the base is the central fiscal problem of a developing economy. We teach it as a craft, with the costing and the incidence analysis that turn a wish into a policy.

This specialised subject can be taken as a one-day working lab, three-day workshop, two-week specialised training, or curated institutional programme within published open windows.

Who should attend

Tax policy units, revenue authority managers, finance committee members, ministries weighing new revenue measures.

Programme modules

Module spine

  1. 01

    Costing what the state gives away: tax expenditure measurement, incentive review and sunset design

  2. 02

    Reaching wealth: high-net-worth risk profiling, offshore holdings and shelter structures

  3. 03

    Taxing where records are thin: presumptive design, digital payment data and informality

  4. 04

    Behavioural response and revenue estimation: buoyancy, elasticity and forecast credibility

  5. 05

    Carbon, extractive and solidarity instruments, including zakat, in their legal and fiscal setting

  6. 06

    Capstone: a medium-term revenue strategy costed, sequenced and drafted into law

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