Developing Countries: Tax Collection
(asked on 28th May 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to increase the capacity of developing countries to collect tax.
This question was answered on 3rd June 2015
DFID is engaged in, or developing, tax reform projects in 26 of our 28 priority countries. We have established a specialist Capacity Building Unit in HMRC to provide technical expertise to support these efforts and are working internationally so developing countries have the means to tackle tax avoidance and evasion.