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Tables and figures for: Revenue Collection Is Not Enough: Taxes as an Instrument of Development

By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)

This dataset contains tables and figures for the publication "Revenue Collection Is Not Enough: Taxes as an Instrument of Development" (Related publication only available in Spanish). Taxation in Latin America is largely viewed as a means of generating income to keep the government in business. In recent years, progress has been made towards increasing total revenue, but most countries in the region still lag well behind other countries with similar levels of development. More importantly, Latin America policymakers still largely ignore the potential of taxation to contribute to other important development goals. Governments have repeatedly missed the chance to influence consumption and production patterns by using taxes to effect relative price changes. More than Revenue aims to provide an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/4bjv9kzs
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
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Inter-American Development Bank (2015). Tables and figures for: Revenue Collection Is Not Enough: Taxes as an Instrument of Development. IDB Open Data. https://doi.org/10.60966/4bjv9kzs
Published date 2015-06-30
Modified date 2026-06-15
Tags/Keywords Andean Community Of Nations · LAC-7 · Taxes
Language
  1. Spanish
Temporal coverage 1990-2014
Country
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Inter-American Development Bank
Data collection type Administrative Data
Statistical type Panel Data
Data structure Structured Data

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