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On 22 April 2021, the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) held a 2nd Research Webinar for the year 2021 entitled “Revenue Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic: Winners and Losers” which attracted participation from the Heads of research in tax administrations, Heads of tax/revenue policy units of the Ministries of Finance, and their respective staff. The objectives of the webinar were threefold. First, to assess the revenue impact of COVID-19 in 2020 across countries in Africa, by tax types and critical sectors and to identify the underlying drivers. Second, to examine the vulnerability and/or resilience to exogenous shocks of the major tax types and key sectors in African tax jurisdictions. Third, to identify the key measures that have been implemented so far to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and understand their specific effects on the tax administration’s performance. The webinar attracted presentations from the following countries: Eswatini, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Togo, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe. This policy brief uses the data that was collected from countries prior to the webinar, summarises the countries’ findings, and proposes recommendations.