We don’t want to be spending all the money collected from property taxes on valuation! Simplified property valuation can be extremely cost effective - Director Nowere from Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) discussing key lessons from Kampala’s revenue collection experience Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) inaugural conference

Can low-capacity states leverage social norms to improve tax collection? Priya Manwaring and I show that such policies can not only be ineffective, but even backfire when beliefs about compliance are initially optimistic. A brief summary Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa: blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20…