Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Economies is jointly produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTP) and the OECD Development Centre (DEV) with the co-operation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Pacific Island Tax Administrators Association (PITAA), and the Pacific Community (SPC) and financial support from the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The authors like to thank the ADB for co-organising with the OECD and the Study Group on Asian Tax Administration and Research a technical workshop on Revenue Statistics in Manila, Philippines, on 13 September 2019. PITAA and SPC have also provided invaluable support and advice.
The staff with responsibility for producing the publication were: Michelle Harding, Head, Tax Data and Statistical Analysis, Emmanuelle Modica, Statistician/Analyst, Leonie Cedano, Statistician, Talita Yamashiro Fordelone, Advisor and Koji Ono, Senior Advisor, Global Relations of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration under the supervision of the Director Pascal Saint-Amans, Deputy Director Grace Perez-Navarro and the Head of the Tax Policy and Tax Statistics Division David Bradbury; Jingjing Xia of the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of the Director and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development, Mario Pezzini, Deputy Director Federico Bonaglia, Kensuke Tanaka, Head of the Asia Unit, and Alexander Pick, Coordinator of Revenue Statistics for the Development Centre. The special feature was written by Donghyun Park, Principal Economist, Yasushi Suzuki, Public Management Specialist, and Go Nagata, Public Management Specialist at the ADB, and by Leonie Cedano, Michelle Harding, Emmanuelle Modica, Alexander Pick, Jingjing Xia and Talita Yamashiro Fordelone (OECD), drawing on the presentations and research of speakers at an ADB-CATA-OECD-PITAA-SGATAR virtual meeting that was held on 14 May 2020, including Peter Green and David Bradbury (OECD), Dr Sabin Samitah (Malaysia), Dr Lamy Mong (Cambodia), Iain Steel (ODI), and David Phillips (IFS). Elizabeth Nash and Delphine Grandrieux at DEV and Marie-Aurélie Elkurd, Karena Garnier and Natalie Lagorce at CTP assisted with the production and publication of this report.
The authors would like to thank other officials for their invaluable help in completing this publication. Support was also provided by Piera Tortora, Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate; Heike Buss, Tax Advisor, Ben Dickinson, Head of the Global Relations and Development Division, Varsha Singh, Deputy Head of Division of the Global Relations and Development Division of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration; Policy Officer Vincent Bigot, Head of Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Sector Stefan Agne, Head of Sector for Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Benedikt Madl, Head of Budget Support, Public Finance Management, Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Unit Erica Gerretsen, at the European Commission; Team leader Economic Cooperation and Agriculture Section Emmanuelle Guiheneuf, Programme Manager Budget Support Marga Peeters, and Programme Manager Economic Cooperation and Agriculture Section Shaleshni Prasad at the Delegation of the European Union for the Pacific; Nilima Lal, Economic Statistics Advisor at the SPC; Koni Ravono, Head of Secretariat, and Petero Maivucevuce, Training Coordinator at PITAA. The authors would like to thank their colleagues working in national administrations with whom they have consulted regularly. These institutions include finance ministries, national tax agencies and national statistical institutes of the participating countries. The authors are also very grateful to all participants at the technical workshop in Manila, Philippines in September 2019 and at the ADB-CATA-OECD-PITAA-SGATAR virtual meeting that was held on 14 May 2020.
This document was produced with financial support from the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion or policies of the governments of Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.