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Taxing Agricultural Income in the Global South: Revisiting Uganda’s National Debate

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dc.creator Stewart-Wilson, Graeme
dc.creator Waiswa, Ronald
dc.date 2021-06-10T14:50:01Z
dc.date 2021-06-10T14:50:01Z
dc.date 2021-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:46:37Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:46:37Z
dc.identifier Stewart-Wilson, G. and Waiswa, R. (2021) Taxing Agricultural Income in the Global South: Revisiting Uganda’s National Debate, ICTD Research in Brief 70, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16662
dc.identifier Governance
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198492
dc.description The issue of agricultural taxation has almost completely disappeared from scholarly and policy agendas in recent decades. And, yet, agriculture continues to be taxed very lightly in much of the Global South – even though it contributes substantially to GDP. In some cases, light taxation of agriculture may be an intentional policy goal. Evidence from Uganda, however, suggests there are a substantial number of agricultural suppliers earning high incomes in the sector that are either: (1) protected by current tax legislation, or (2) not compliant with their existing tax obligations. Summary of Working Paper 121 by Graeme Stewart-Wilson and Ronald Waiswa. This working paper reviews the early literature on taxing agricultural income, and discusses some reasons for its near-disappearance from the policy agenda. The paper then investigates attempts to tax agricultural income in Uganda. Uganda’s experience provides useful lessons for other Global South countries that may be considering revisiting the question of how best to tax agricultural income.
dc.description UKAID
dc.description Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
dc.language en
dc.publisher Institute of Development Studies
dc.relation The International Centre for Tax and Development;70
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.rights Institute of Development Studies
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Finance
dc.subject Governance
dc.title Taxing Agricultural Income in the Global South: Revisiting Uganda’s National Debate
dc.type Other
dc.coverage Uganda


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