News
- Download the International Budget Project's Guide to tax work for NGOs
- Chartered accountant Richard Murphy uses his TaxBlog to challenge the International Accounting Standards Board to promote greater financial transparency by multinational companies engaged in the extractive industries
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Most Corrupt of All?
- Kenya's Daily Nation asks 'Is this the end for export processing zones?'
- South African Revenue Service takes on the rich and corporate tax avoiders . . . [read more]
- Follow the Money - why corruption perceptions indicators must pay more attention to the activities of major tax havens like Britain, Switzerland and the United States
- The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions uncovers disturbing evidence of corporate tax evasion and warns that the race to lower corporate tax rates will precipitate funding crises in developing and developed countries
- NGOs ask G-8 leaders to deliver on promises to ratify and enforce the UN Convention Against Corruption
- Africa All Party Parliamentary Group calls on British government to tackle the 'supply side' of global corruption . . . [read more] and Prime Minister Tony Blair makes commitments to funding anti-corruption index but fails to effectively tackle offshore secrecy . . . [read more]
- SustainAbility makes the case for taxation to be seen by companies through the lens of a corporate responsibility perspective . . . [read more]
- Bretton Woods Update highlights the need for a redesign of the international financial architecture to tackle capital flight and tax evasion . . read more
- The South African Revenue Service consults on what is to be done about tax avoidance
WELCOME TO THE TAX JUSTICE NETWORK FOR AFRICA
ABOUT TAX JUSTICE NETWORK FOR AFRICA
The Tax Justice Network for Africa (TJN-A) is a pan African initiative and part of the international Tax Justice Network.
TJN-A was launched at the World Social Forum in Nairobi in January 2007. The Network is spearheaded by a steering committee of ten members representing different Organizations across Africa with a secretariat based at Econews-Africa in Nairobi Kenya
TJN-A aims to promote socially just, democratic and progressive taxation systems in Africa. We advocate for tax systems which are favourable to the poor and finance public goods.We challenge harmful tax policies and practices which favour the wealthy and which encourage unacceptable inequality.
The purpose of this initiative is to mainstream tax justice in the economic discourse in Africa.We provide a platform dedicated to enabling African researchers, campaigners and policy makers to cooperate in the struggle against illicit capital flight, tax evasion, tax competition and other harmful trends in tax policy and practice.
Focus on Inequality
The first quarter 2007 edition of the Tax Justice Focus is a special edition on inequality.
It includes articles by Caren Grown a scholar in Gender Equality at Bard College, and Imraan Valodia a researcher at the school of Development studies of the university of KwaZulu-Natal, Anna Thomas of Christian Aid, Sheila Killian of University of Limerick, and Fausto Hernandez-Trillo of CIDE Mexico.
This edition also covers the launch of Tax Justice Network for Africa, and plans for the Youth TJN
Le Bulletin trimestriel sur l'Afrique (volume 2, numéro 3) en traduction Française peut être téléchargé ici.
The Shirts Off Their Backs
In The Shirts Off Their Backs, Christian Aid warns that unless the massive gaps in poorer countries' revenues are plugged by responsible tax policies and international action to curb tax havens, the UN's poverty reduction targets will be missed. The briefing shows how poorer countries are losing $500 billion a year in revenues to international tax dodgers.
Tax Havens: Releasing the Hidden Billions for Poverty Eradication
In this report on harmful tax competition and tax avoidance, published in June 2000, Oxfam explores the negative impacts of tax havens on international development and proposes a set of guiding principles and policy options, which taken in combination could provide solutions to the failures of the current global financial architecture.
Tax havens and tax competition: one rule for the poor, no rules for the rich
Anti-poverty campaigner War on Want explores the forces behind tax competition and concludes that the dynamics of this process act against the interest of the poor and to the detriment of ordinary people and smaller businesses. Global treaties are required to tackle extreme outcomes of tax competition such as tax havens, and to ensure that limited forms of tax competition contribute to poverty reduction rather than further enrichment of the wealthy.