Preaching tax morality, practicing tax avoidance

Opinion July 22, 2009

Donors demand that recipient country governments clean up their tax administration systems as a way of expanding state revenues and fighting corruption. Yet donors refuse to pay taxes in the developing countries where they provide aid. Odd Fjeldstad sheds light on a murky corner of the aid business.

Odd Fjeldstad is Research Director at CMI.

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