Having been to many African countries, it was strange that I hadn’t made it to Uganda until yesterday. I went to attend the launch of two new reports; “Tax Incentives: A race to the bottom” one on...
Every year Uganda sacrifices an amount equal to nearly twice its entire health budget due to its use of tax incentives such as tax holidays for foreign businesses. Worse still, research shows that...
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda are losing $2.8 billion each year through their use of tax incentives such as tax holidays for foreign businesses. Such tax incentives are promoting harmful tax...
It feels like we’ve gone through about two weeks in the conference center here in Cannes, rather than two days. But we’ve made it through, with all the heads of government now making their closing...
Here in Cannes I’ve had a chance to look through the report, titled dryly “Supporting the development of effective tax systems”.It contains recommendations for the G20 from some of the leading global...
Last night the G20 announced that they had signed a convention against tax evasion that the OECD says could raise £62 billion. The convention, which is not new but rather an update of an existing...
The full extent to which FTSE 100 companies use tax havens has, for the first time, been compiled, analysed and published in an accessible and searchable format by ActionAid.
Nigeria could be losing millions in tax dollars every year because of subsidiaries registered abroad by multinational companiesActionAid research released this Tuesday shows that 98 of the FTSE 100...
A toolkit to introduce civil society to tax topics in a way that is accessible and understandable.While some pioneering civil society groups have long been campaigning for fairer tax justice, the...
