OECD - Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Economies 2019

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 Islands Tax Administrators Association (PITAA), and the Pacific Community (SPC) and the financial support of the European Union and the government of Japan. The partners would like to thank PITAA and the ADB for co-organising with the OECD a technical workshop in Nadi, Fiji on 3-4 April 2019, with financial support from the European Union. PITAA and SPC have also provided invaluable support and advice. The staff with responsibility for producing the publication were: Kensuke Tanaka, Head of Asia Desk, Jingjing Xia, Statistician, Prasiwi Ibrahim, Economist, and Alexander Pick, Co-ordinator at the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of the Director of the Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development, Mario Pezzini; Michelle Harding, Head, Tax Data and Statistical Analysis, Emmanuelle Modica, Statistician/Analyst, Leonie Beisemann, Statistician, Talita Yamashiro Fordelone, Advisor and Osamu Yoshida, Deputy Head, 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. The special feature benefited from useful inputs, based on A Comparative Analysis of Tax Administration in Asia and the Pacific 2018 Edition from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), provided by Yasushi Suzuki, Public Management Specialist. Inputs were also provided by Rahmalia Devita, Intern at the Asia Desk, OECD Development Centre. Elizabeth Nash, Delphine Grandrieux, at DEV and Marie-Aurlie Elkurd at CTP assisted with the production and publication of this report and Stephanie Coic produced the cover.

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; Policy Officer Vincent Bigot, Head of Domestic Revenue Mobilisation Sector, Stefan Agne 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; Donghyun Park, Principal Economist, ADB; Nilima Lal, Economic Statistics Advisor at the SPC; Koni Ravono, Head of Secretariat, and Petero Maivucevuce, Training Coordinator at PITAA; as well as Koichoro Aritoshi, Rokiah Bakar, Assel Baltabayeva, Dariya Bissengaliyeva, Gil Beltran, Rowena Sta Clara, Meirbekov Daniyar, Kenneth Lee, Zhi Wei Lim, Datuk Haji Mohd Esa Abd Manaf, Mohammad Reezal Ahmad, Brian McAuley, Teresa Mendoza, Amir Abdul Mutalib Shaari, Rena Nagayama, Hui Li Ng, Kunta Nugraha, Kumara Candra, Ratri Raden, Punjung Raras, Rita Helbra Tenrini, Tuti Sariningsih Budi Utami, Jiehui Shen, Hiroto Sugano, Adzhar Sulaiman, Joanne Tan, Mui Choo Teng, Suryani Widarta, Zarina Yerkebayeva, Dauren Zakumbayev, Marsidi Zelika, Tearii Maurangi, Xavier Mitchell, Shiri Gounder, Shavindra Nath, Hiyemute Waine, Andrew Bryan Tafua Stratton, Gibson Sanau, Ezekiel Tuke, Doudan Vunagi, Sarah Wickham, Ajchara Chidkrue, Inthu-on Whangprasert, Iapi Jasperse, Alan Shaw, Collins Gesa and George Brechtefeld. The authors are also very grateful to all participants at the technical workshop in Nadi, Fiji in April 2019 as well as to colleagues working in national governments with whom they consulted regularly.