Our Focus
Tax for SDGs
Taxation is crucial for driving capital towards countries’ sustainability targets. But to achieve this, tax systems need to be transparent and streamlined.
UNDP’s Tax for SDGs team supports countries in employing taxation for raising capital to reach their sustainability targets – and as a policy instrument to encourage sustainable growth.
Working with Ministries of Finance, tax authorities and other national counterparts, the Tax for SDGs team develops tax policy frameworks that not only deliver resources for the SDGs but create incentives for positive action.
Through the global OECD-UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative, UNDP has supported the collection of US$2 billion in additional tax revenues in more than 100 countries since 2015. In 2023, TIWB launched 19 new programmes and assisted governments in generating an additional $230 million in tax revenues, which can be directed towards a range of crucial SDG areas.
TIWB is operating 59 ongoing programmes across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Arab States, Europe and the CIS, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Over 130 new experts joined the UNDP-maintained TIWB Roster of Experts, across eight thematic areas.
