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Tax avoidance and evasion is particularly an issue in developing countries as they may not have the capacity and resources to collect the tax which they are owed. In May 2013 we announced a new capacity building programme, the Developing Countries Capacity Building Unit, to set up projects working with Ethiopia and Tanzania in partnership to strengthen their tax administration. The unit is funded by the Department for International Development (DIFD) and run by HMRC. Through the new programmes HMRC and the Tanzanian and Ethiopian authorities will work together to tailor HMRC best practice to the infrastructure and resources available to help these countries in order to strengthen their tax administrations. This could be in areas such as tax inspector training, improving the revenue authority’s website, developing a complaints handling process, or bringing in a risk management system. Since 2010 there has been an annual 40% increase in revenue collection in Ethiopia, supported by the first phase of HMRC’s partnership with the Ethiopian authorities.