Ethiopia’s Tax System: Structure, Performance, and Benchmarking
This Selected Issues Paper reviews Ethiopia’s tax system, highlighting its persistently low tax-to-GDP ratio despite sustained economic growth.
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Volume 2025
Issue 108
Publication date: July 2025
ISBN: 9798229019255
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Public Finance , Taxation - General , Tax policy , Revenue mobilization , Tax efficiency , Tax potential , Benchmarking , Stochastic frontier analysis , Value-added tax , Income tax , Trade tax , Fiscal sustainability , Ethiopia , Sub-Saharan Africa , D , tax revenue elasticity , E , revenue potential , CIT tax revenues , B , tax revenue structure , trade openness , Corporate income tax , Consumption taxes , Personal income tax
Summary
This Selected Issues Paper reviews Ethiopia’s tax system, highlighting its persistently low tax-to-GDP ratio despite sustained economic growth. It benchmarks Ethiopia’s revenue performance against regional and structural peers, examines the structure and efficiency of major tax categories, and analyzes revenue responsiveness to the business cycle. Using stochastic frontier analysis, it estimates the country’s tax potential and identifies significant gaps.
