In January we blogged our 2016 Tax Justice and Human Rights essay competition, in partnership with Oxfam. It was a competition aimed at legal students and professionals, seeking ideas on how human rights law can be used in the fight against tax dodging. The winning student submission was from … [Read more...]
Gender
Why is the CEO of IKEA Switzerland head of a UN panel on gender?
On March the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment held their inaugural meeting. The panel: “intends to put women’s economic empowerment at the top of the international agenda, including by defining actions to speed up progress under the 2030 Agenda for … [Read more...]
Top rate income tax cuts: 89 percent go to men, 11 percent to women
From The UK's Mirror newspaper: "If George Osborne [the UK Finance Minister] slashes the rate further in the Budget – from 45p to 40p for those on £150,000 or more – will put even more money in men’s pockets. Analysis by the Tax Justice Network found there are 339,000 people (284,000 men and … [Read more...]
International Women’s Day: tax justice is a feminist issue, every day.
Women's Budget Group (UK): showing how gender issues can be addressed International Women’s Day: Tax Justice is a feminist issue, every day. By Liz Nelson On International Women's Day, let’s remember that tax justice is a feminist issue - every day. We’d like to use today to signal some … [Read more...]
How do top rate income tax cuts affect women?
On International Women's Day, this is the first of two blogs on the subject of tax justice and gender. The short answer to the question in our headline is that cuts to the top rate of income tax hit women particularly hard, not just because their disproportionate role in childcare and other … [Read more...]
Switzerland’s financial secrecy brought under the human rights spotlight
Switzerland – arguably the world’s most important tax haven – may soon face scrutiny from the United Nations human rights system over its role in facilitating cross-border tax abuse. A coalition of civil society bodies has filed a submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination … [Read more...]
Civil society calls on African Union to prioritise financing human rights for women
We've just received a copy of the final Communiqué of the 6th Citizen's Continental Conference which took place in late January in Addis Ababa. This year the conference, which precedes the African Union Summit, had human rights as its core focus, with a particular focus on the rights of women. … [Read more...]
Women’s Working Group reaction to the Addis Ababa finance for development outcomes
From the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development Reaction to the Outcome Document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development: Addis Ababa Action Agenda July 2015 Download PDF The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) expresses … [Read more...]
Call for papers on Gender, Development, and Fiscal/Economic Equality
FemLaw [a collaborative research network of the Law and Society Association (LSA)] is seeking expressions of interest in presenting papers in its program at two interdisciplinary international conferences being sponsored by the Law and Society Association: the New Orleans LSA conference (June 2-5, … [Read more...]
Sign on! Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights
Via the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Organisations are now invited to endorse the Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights. … [Read more...]
Quote of the day – tax incentives as official tax evasion
This headline may seem odd. Conventionally tax evasion involves cutting taxes by breaking laws; using tax incentives is a different creature altogether: it involves cutting taxes by using the law. But this useful new report from the European parliament contains a twist on the conventional … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Focus – the Gender edition
We are delighted to announce the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter,Tax Justice Focus. This is The Gender Edition, and it is guest edited by Liz Nelson of TJN. It complements a new "Gender" page we've just opened up, where these materials will be permanently stored. … [Read more...]
Building the foundation for tax justice through human rights
Click here for a Spanish language version of the following statement, which comes out of the meeting between tax justice and human rights communities in Lima, Peru on 29th/30th April 2015. For years, the tax justice and human rights movements have worked along parallel paths to confront the … [Read more...]
Why Gender Equality Requires More Tax Revenue
This is the third post this week on the topic of gender, and to celebrate our arrival in the modern world we have created a new topic page, where you will permanently be able to access news and analysis in this area. Now we're delighted to host a guest blog by Diane Elson, Chair of the UK … [Read more...]
How do the UK parties’ promises on tax measure up on gender equality?
Ahead of the UK General Election due on May 7th, we are delighted to post a guest blog by Professor Sue Himmelweit of the Women’s Budget Group. The blog explains clearly just how important these issues are, and it also soon becomes clear that although this is a UK-focused blog, it has obvious … [Read more...]
