From Paper to Platforms: Tax Collection in Myanmar

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The International Monetary Fund forecast this month that Myanmar?s economy would rebound to 6.7 percent this year—surpassing many of its neighbors in growth. Among the National League for Democracy-led government?s economic priorities is "broadening its revenue base through improved tax collection. For a cash-based country accustomed to backchannel exchanges that has continued to decentralize, reforming the tax collection process is a challenge, to put it mildly. However, examples of technology applications removing some barriers to revenue collection are emerging, particularly at the municipal level..."

Source/publisher: 

The Asia Foundation

Date of Publication: 

2017-11-29

Date of entry: 

2018-01-18

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English