Second Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures: GTETI Updates Unveiled

From July 2022 to May 2024, the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) together with the Council on Economic Policies and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability jointly organized six regional workshops on tax expenditures (TEs) across three regions (West Africa, East Africa, and Asia). The workshops invited officials from finance ministries, revenue authorities, and parliaments. The primary objectives were to build capacity, facilitate knowledge transfer to and between ATI partner countries, and establish robust regional networks of TE experts.

Building on the momentum and vast interest generated by these workshops, ATI, CEP and IDOS initiated a Community of Practice (CoP) on TEs. The objective of the Community of Practice (CoP) is to provide all attendees from ATI partner countries and other interested parties with a platform to continue discussions regarding TE estimation, evaluation, reporting, and reform. In doing so, the CoP aspires to leverage the collective expertise of its members to enhance TE governance across finance ministries, revenue administrations, parliaments, and beyond.

The first meeting, held in October 2024, provided a high-level overview of tax expenditures governance, featuring two presentations from Liberia and Indonesia.