Research that matters - stakeholder workshop

Under the SA-TIED programme qualified researchers have access to highly granular administrative tax datasets derived from South African Revenue Services’ data to answer important questions about tax policy and inequality in South Africa. SA-TIED is now requesting research proposals from qualified individuals or teams that would like to join the SA-TIED research programme and contribute to this effort. 

The call for research proposals will coincide with an engagement workshop to be held on 15 November, 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa. The workshop will be hosted by the Public revenue mobilization for inclusive development and Turning the tide on inequality work streams of the SA-TIED programme.

SA-TIED researchers will present here past and ongoing research on inequality and tax policy issues. They will explore areas for research advancement and share ideas with the broader research and policy making community for the future of this research. This will help to frame the request for research proposals and to answer questions from researchers hoping to join the SA-TIED programme.

Registration for the event is required and must be completed by 7 November, 2018.

The event schedule is below:

Time	Activity	CHAIR
08:15 - 08:45	Registration & tea
08:45 - 09:00	Opening	Murray Leibbrandt
09:00 – 10:30	Landscape of the RFP	Catherine Macleod
	Aroop Chatterjee – Presentation Understanding Wealth Inequality in South Africa
	Murray Leibbrandt – Presentation  Understanding the Top-end of the Income Distribution in South Africa
	Jukka Pirtillä and Rebone Gcabo – Presentation  Tax Research in South Africa: Framing Paper
	Kezia Lilenstein and Amina Ebrahim – Presentation  Gender and the South African Labour Market: Framing Paper
10:30 – 11:00	Tea break and networking
11:00 – 11:45	Technical session – Presentation	Jukka Pirttilä
	Data Availability (Charl van Schoor)
	Employment Panel (Chris Axelson)
	Current and Ongoing Research (Amina Ebrahim)
11:45 – 12:20	Q&A	Murray Leibbrandt
12:20 – 12:30	Closing remarks	Jukka Pirttilä
12:30 – 13:15	Lunch