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Driving Gender Equality in Tax Systems Across Africa: Project Updates
Six months into the Gender Equality in Taxation – Fair Tax Monitor (GET-FTM) Project, and tangible progress has been made. Supported by Expertise France, the initiative aims to reduce gender inequalities embedded in fiscal systems in Benin, Cameroon, and Senegal, ensuring tax policies better respond to the needs of women and girls. Since the project…
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Make Take Tax Fair delivers training in Cambodia
From 8–11 December, under the SCOPE-PFM project funded by the EU, Oxfam in Cambodia and its partners organized a training on the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) for 31 participants including 14 women. Those present were from NGOs who are representing the Budget Working Group, Access to Information Working Group, Social Protection for All coalition, Anti-Corruption…
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Presentation of the Environmental Taxation Chapter of the Kenya Fair Tax Monitor
On November 20th, at a lively and thought-provoking dissemination workshop, Oxfam Kenya discussed the new Environmental Taxation Chapter of the Kenya Fair Tax Monitor with a range of stakeholders. This was accompanied by the publication of a new study on Regulating Tax Incentives for Enhanced Domestic Resource Mobilization in Kenya. The event—where participants shared insights…
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Taxing the Rich in Nigeria: How Civil Society Turned Evidence into Action
This interview with Henry Ushie – Programme Manager for Accountable Governance at Oxfam Nigeria – was conducted by Isabel Sánchez Rotllán, Intern with Oxfam Novib When Henry Ushie, speaks about fair taxation, his passion fills the room. “Fiscal governance is my rice and beans,” he laughs. “It’s what I love — ensuring public finance works…
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New Fair Tax Monitor South Africa Report: Tax in the World’s Most Unequal Country
South Africa is in need of redistribution and growth. Every year we hear about how the country does not have enough money for schools, clinics and hospitals, and how the rich are overtaxed. There are extreme contradictions in how people experience and live in this country that show that increasing taxes on the rich is…
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Fair Tax Monitor joins the UN’s inaugural sessions of the Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
This blog was written by Henrique Alencar, Policy Advisor Tax and Inequality at Oxfam, who spoke at the UN sessions In the first weeks of August 2025, the initial sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation took place at the UN headquarters in New York. It represented a new phase[i] of…
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Fair Tax Monitor presents its work at Addis Tax Initiative Assembly
From July 22 – 24, the 2025 Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) General Assembly took place in Ethiopia. Bringing together officials from tax administrations and finance ministries of African, Asian and Latin American countries, as well as representatives of civil society organizations and northern development partners, the conference was an excellent opportunity to showcase the FTM’s…
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10 Years of the FTM: Looking back & Looking forward
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM). The FTM was developed within the joint Oxfam-TJNA CRAFT project which started in 2011. This project was facilitating a learning community of African and Asian CSOs that jointly worked to strengthen capacities on research and advocacy on fair taxation. As we celebrate this moment,…
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Fair Tax Monitor delivers training on tax & gender for civil society organizations in Senegal
This blog can also be accessed in French here. Group photo of participants at the training for civil society organizations involved in the Gender Equality in Taxation GET project As part of the ongoing partnership between the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) and Expertise France through the Gender Equality in Taxation (GET) project, a training event…
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FTM Partners with Expertise France to Tackle Gender Inequality Through Tax Justice
By Henrique Alencar, Policy Advisor Tax and Inequality at Oxfam and Andrea Salazar Cardero, Intern with Oxfam Novib This article can also be accessed in French here. Building on a decade of dedicated efforts to highlight gender disparities in fiscal systems, the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) has partnered with Expertise France. Specifically, this partnership seeks to…
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Mozambique: Better Taxation for a Better Future
By Henrique Alencar, Policy Advisor Tax and Inequality at Oxfam and Adelson Rafael, Just Economy & Livelihoods Program Officer, Oxfam Mozambique Over the past four months, Mozambique has faced extreme levels of social unrest and protests following the general elections of October 2024. Initially driven by allegations of electoral fraud, the demonstrations soon expanded to…
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A preview of the South Africa FTM: How the Treasury is forfeiting R198bn a year due to tax bracket over-inflation
By Chloé van Biljon Oxfam Novib and Tax Justice Network-Africa are currently working with the Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) on a South Africa FTM report. The following analysis on the Personal Income Tax brackets of the South African tax system is a result of the research being carried out in preparation of the…
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The World Economic Forum 2025: Time to Tax the Richest and End Extreme Wealth
January 20th marked the beginning of the 2025 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. The event brings together global leaders in politics and business to discuss key global and regional challenges – such as responding to geopolitical shocks and stimulating economic growth – with little transparency or representation from regular citizens and other stakeholders.…
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What is Nigeria’s path to closing the revenue gap for development?
Following the recent publication of the Fair Tax Monitor Nigeria Report: Taxing the Rich, FTM’s Ishmael Zulu was interviewed for the Business Edge on Nigeria’s national station News Central. In this wide-ranging and comprehensive interview, a number of topics were addressed, such as Nigeria’s critical revenue gap, which threatens its development goals and the stark…
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A Greener, Fairer Future: How Our New FTM Chapter Paves the Way for Environmental Tax Justice
As COP29 unfolds, global attention is squarely on solutions to meet urgent climate targets. In line with these critical discussions, Oxfam and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) are expanding the Fair Tax Monitor’s Common Research Framework (CRF) to include an in-depth Green Taxes chapter. This new component is designed to help low-income countries implement environmentally…
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New Fair Tax Monitor Nigeria Report: Taxing the Rich to Combat Inequality
On 15th October 2024, the newest Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) report, thematically focused on Taxing the Rich, was launched in Nigeria. It shines a light on a critical issue: how fair taxation of the wealthiest could be the key to tackling the country’s deepening hunger and inequality crisis.
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FTM countries vote in favour of the Terms of Reference for the UN Tax Convention
Image of the final vote results on the TOR for the UN Tax Convention Gaining UN approval for negotiating a legally binding agreement is usually a journey, and often quite a tricky and tiresome one. On 16th August, one such expedition reached a momentous destination however as, in a historic win for tax justice, UN…
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FTM speaks at 2 sessions at Wellbeing Economy Alliance Conference
This blog was written by James Canavan, Intern with Oxfam Novib Introduction During the latest Wellbeing Economy conference held in Copenhagen last month, two standout sessions organised and featuring Oxfam colleagues involved in the Fair Tax Monitor delved into the topics of renouncing green extractivism in Europe’s energy transition and the role of tax as a tool…
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Constantly responding, consistently evolving: Explanation of the FTM thematic approach
The Fair Tax Monitor was initially developed in 2015 by Oxfam and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) in collaboration with partners from four pilot countries Uganda, Senegal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Since then, we’ve consistently incorporated lessons learned to further refine the methodology. In 2019, we had our first review addressing the fact that since the…
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Gender-Disaggregated Tax Data in Addressing Inequality: A Zambian Success Story
This blog was written by Ishmael Zulu, Policy Officer of Tax and Equity at Tax Justice Network Africa Comprehensive and nuanced data are essential for understanding and tackling gender inequality. An often-overlooked aspect is gender-disaggregated tax data, which can provide valuable insights into the differential impact of tax systems on men and women. This data is crucial…
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Oxfam and TJNA Collaborate with AIDC to Explore Fair Tax Monitor Report for South Africa
In a week-long engagement at the Cape Town offices of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), representatives from Oxfam and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) visited the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). The visit marked a collaborative effort to discuss the feasibility of producing a Fair Tax Monitor report tailored to South Africa,…
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FTM hosts Tax and Extractives webinar
On April 9th 2024, the FTM team organized a session during which our partner, the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), in Mozambique presented their experience of using the new Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) chapter on Extractives. The session was kicked-off by Adelson Rafael, a colleague from Oxfam Mozambique, who introduced the research and…
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Inclusive Tax Cooperation at the UN and the Stance of the Netherlands
This blog was written by Henrique Alencar, Policy Advisor Tax and Inequality at Oxfam At the 2022 United Nations General Assembly, several resolutions were discussed that have a major impact on global issues. One of those resolutions could change the way international tax rules are created and promote a new system that addresses tax avoidance…
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FTM hosts workshop at the Fair4ALL event in Accra, Ghana
Photo credit: Facebook page of Oxfam Ghana In February 2024 the Fair4All programme – a largescale influencing program on the theme of fair value chains – held a regional learning event in Accra, Ghana, in which the Fair Tax Monitor took part. More than twelve countries involved in the Fair4All programme came together to share,…
