[Pdf-women] Framing Feminist Taxation - Vol. 2

[Pacific Disability]

>From Global Tax Justice:

June 23, 2022 - The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ)'s Tax and Gender Working Group, together with ActionAid International, Akina Mama wa Afrika and Womankind Worldwide, have launched Framing Feminist Taxation vol. 2: Issues and tools for analysis and capacity building - a case study of Uganda. The new volume of the guide presents tools to assess the gender bias in the current tax system and best practices to advocate for a feminist tax system that upholds human rights and enables substantive gender equality.

Using Uganda as a case study, the publication was developed to support individuals, civil society organisations and practitioners working in tax justice and gender equality to assess their own countries' tax systems. It takes the readers through different exercises aiming to enable them to develop their own analysis and advocacy strategy for tax justice and gender equality. It also presents three main frameworks that provide a gender equality and human rights lens and could be used in the analysis and formulation of tax policies: the OPERA human rights framework; the Fair Tax Monitor; and Grown conceptual framework for tax and gender analysis.

"Taxes affect everyone differently depending on class, gender, position in society. While tax policies are supposedly neutral, human circumstances are not, because under current inequitable policies and disparities in collection approaches, the one with less ends up paying disproportionately more. It is women - who are more likely to be unemployed, underpaid, or spend money on consumption to support their families - consequently end up being affected harder by these tax and fiscal policies", highlighted Caroline Othim, Global Policy Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator at GATJ and one of the authors of the publication.

She continued: "This guide is quite timely, as it comes at a moment when governments need to ensure inclusive recovery from the pandemic. And for a recovery that is equitable and just, a transformative change is needed, one that rejects the 'old normal' in favor of an economy centered on well-being and care. Thus, the publication highlights the call by civil society for the adoption of feminist alternatives to the existing orthodox economic structures, which are rooted in neoliberal ideology, while the present realities call for a rights-based solution to the challenges in global and domestic taxation".

Important Links:

  1.  Direct Link to Full 68-Page Vol. 2 Publication 2022: FTG2 EN - VF double page.pdf - Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WX-gP6Y2vFobw0XqT_aKcsd6-gaSBqZB/view>
  2.  Download the guide in English<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WX-gP6Y2vFobw0XqT_aKcsd6-gaSBqZB/view?usp=sharing>, Spanish<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-78ZAMGh2ccH8kvogNn9-zrRcSrZA0rj/view?usp=sharing> or French<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OoWeFYAsL1w6bzuM4r6y4plc9gHxui5q/view?usp=sharing>
  3.  https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/en/latest/gatj-tax-and-gender-working-group-launches-framing-feminist-taxation-vol2



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