Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific 2026 is jointly produced by the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD)’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) and the OECD Development Centre (DEV) with the co-operation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Pacific Islands Tax Administrators Association (PITAA) and the Pacific Community (SPC), and with financial support from the governments of Canada, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The OECD staff with responsibility for producing the publication were: Pedro Baptista, Emmanuelle Modica and Talita Yamashiro Fordelone of CTPA under the supervision of the Director Manal Corwin, the Deputy Director Ben Dickinson, the Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division, Kurt Van Dender, and Alexander Pick, Head of the Tax Data and Statistical Analysis Unit. Sebastian Nieto Parra, Head of the Regional Development Dynamics Division of DEV, provided views and comments under the supervision of the Director Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir. The Special Feature was prepared by Yuhei Chiba and was based on an ADB Policy Guide written by Mazhar Waseem and Tejaswi Velayudhan under the supervision of Sandeep Bhattacharya, Principal Public Sector Economist at the ADB.
The authors would like to thank other staff at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration and the OECD Development Centre for their invaluable support in producing the 2026 edition of this publication. Karena Garnier, Delphine Grandrieux and Elizabeth Nash carried out the typesetting of the publication with support from Edoardo Magalini while Ria Sandilands and Rai Santana prepared the communications material. Michael Sharratt provided invaluable assistance with the databases, website and other dissemination tools. The authors would like to thank Bopha Chhun from the Environment Directorate, who provided environmentally related revenue statistics.
The authors would like to thank officials from OECD, ADB, PITAA and SPC for their invaluable help in preparing this publication. Advice and support were provided by Kozue Ichiyama, Public Sector Specialist (Taxation), and Yuhei Chiba, Public Sector Economist (Taxation), in the Sectors Department 3 at the ADB; Petero Maivucevuce, Head of the PITAA Secretariat, and Bimlesh Krishna, Statistics Advisor (Economics) at the SPC. The authors would also like to thank colleagues working in the national administrations of participating economies with whom they have consulted regularly. These institutions include finance ministries, national tax agencies and national statistical institutes.
This document was produced with financial support from the governments of Canada, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion or policies of the governments of Canada, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden or Switzerland.