Category: Africa
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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 Report Nigeria 2024
This is the 2024 Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) report on Nigeria and the first FTM report with the first thematic focus on Taxing the Rich. The report focuses on the yawning revenue gap that threatens the country’s developmental ambitions and the rampant inequality whereby the wealthiest 1% of the population possess five times as much…
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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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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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Launch of the Fair Tax Monitor report in Mozambique
“Fair and Efficient Taxation: A Way to Break the Natural Resource Curse in Mozambique?” Today 4 July 2023 the Fair Tax Monitor report was launched in Maputo, Mozambique. Mozambique is rich in natural resources such as coal, gas and minerals. Despite this it has one of the lowest human development index ratings, rankin 185th out of…
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FTM Report Zambia 2020
This report initially looks at previous fragilities and gives a brief description of the Zambian tax system. It further analyses the pre-Covid tax regime following the 6 clusters of topics: (i) Distribution of the tax burden and progressivity; (ii) Revenue sufficiency and illicit financial flows; (iii) Tax competition & corporate incentives; (iv) Effectiveness of the…
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TJNA Press Release on AU Experts Meeting on Finances
The Tax Justice Network Africa called for greater focus on untapped assets…
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African Finance Ministers Sign Yaoundé Declaration
Recently, in the margins of the 10th Global Forum meeting on Transparency and…
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TJNA’s Africa Media Training 2017
The theme of the 2017 edition of TJNA’s annual Africa Media Training was ‘Harnessing Africa’s mineral wealth to finance sustainable development’.
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Tax Incentives and the African Education Finance Gap
How much revenue do African governments lose from providing tax incentives…