‘The evolving ‘thunder’: the challenges around imposing the digital tax in developing African countries

Although several academic works and the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) discussion papers have addressed the challenges of taxing the digital economy, there has been little focus on describing the sort of policy recommendations that could effectively guide developing African countries to rely on in enacting their own laws to target the taxation of cross-border digital corporations. This paper offers some of these policy recommendations