Tax Revenue and Economic Growth in Selected ECOWAS Countries, Evidence from Sure Model
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
The need for African countries to improve tax revenue-GDP ratio has open up debate among policy makers. This study is motivated to analyse the impact of tax revenue, direct and indirect tax on economic growth of ECOWAS countries, using Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimate (SURE) analysis for five selected Economic Community of West African States (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Benin and Burkina Faso) using data from 2000-2015 generated from World Bank World Development Indicators, 2016. Findings reveal that total tax revenue has positive and significant effect on economic growth an increase in total tax revenue by $1 causes economic growth by 43.2 percent while an increase in direct tax revenue by the same amount dampens growth by -3.08 percent, an indication that direct tax is unproductive in the countries of study. Also an increase in indirect tax revenue by $1 led to a corresponding increase in economic growth by 47.7 percent. For those countries where indirect tax are unproductive, there is need to broaden indirect tax base instead of direct tax rate.
Authors and Affiliations
Joshua Ose Oboh, Okafor Joan Chinonyelum, Richardson Kojo Edeme
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- EP ID EP505894
- DOI 10.6007/IJARAFMS/v8-i3/4917
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