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This paper\u2019s analysis reviews the legislation that governs Sudan\u2019s revenue system, supplemented with interviews with civil servants, and presents an overview of findings from approximately 300 interviews with tax collectors and taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>This integrated analysis of Sudan\u2019s subnational revenue system reveals that decades of revenue centralisation in Khartoum and the Hamdi Triangle has inadvertently supported a variety of formal and informal sub-elites that present threats to and opportunities for reform, which revenue initiatives and local governance reforms have as yet failed to acknowledge or address.<\/p>\n<p>Policy recommendations are provided in an executive summary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades of revenue centralisation has inadvertently supported formal and informal sub-elites that present both threats to and opportunities for reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":19259,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[235,1829],"tags":[],"authors":[1948,1063,1949],"class_list":["post-19256","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication","category-sudan","countries-sudan","authors-alneel","authors-benson","authors-makawi","themes-peace-processes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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