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Taxation, Property Rights and the Social Contract in Lagos: Summary of Working Paper 73

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  • Goodfellow, Tom
  • Owen, Olly

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This ICTD Research in Brief is a two-page summary of ICTD Working Paper 73 by Tom Goodfellow and Olly Owen. This series is aimed at policy makers, tax administrators, fellow researchers and anyone else who is big on interest and short on time. Major taxation reforms over the past decade have been interpreted as facilitating the transformation of Lagos from of a city seen as in permanent ‘crisis’ to a beacon of ‘megacity development’. Most attention has focused on Personal Income Taxation (PIT). Less attention has been devoted to another innovation – the property tax or Land Use Charge (LUC). Yet the story of property taxation in Lagos since the early 2000s is important not only in terms of enormous increases in collection, but because of the ways in which it has helped to solidify the ‘fiscal contract’ between state and society.

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  • Goodfellow, Tom & Owen, Olly, 2018. "Taxation, Property Rights and the Social Contract in Lagos: Summary of Working Paper 73," Working Papers 13538, Institute of Development Studies, International Centre for Tax and Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:idq:ictduk:13538
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    1. Adeosun Oluwaseun Titi & Adebowale Israel Olukayode, 2022. "Property Tax and Sustainable Development in Ekiti State: Citizens’ Perspective," Central European Journal of Public Policy, Sciendo, vol. 16(2), pages 18-29, December.
    2. Schmoll, Moritz, 2020. "Weak street-level enforcement of tax laws: the role of tax collectors’ persistent but broken public service expectations," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 104601, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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