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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From Global Tax Justice:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat">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
<i>Framing Feminist Taxation vol. 2: Issues and tools for analysis and capacity building - a case study of Uganda</i>. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat">“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. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat">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”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important Links:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Montserrat">Direct Link to Full 68-Page Vol. 2 Publication 2022:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WX-gP6Y2vFobw0XqT_aKcsd6-gaSBqZB/view">
<span style="color:blue">FTG2 EN - VF double page.pdf - Google Drive</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Montserrat"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:15.4pt;margin-bottom:15.4pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-family:Montserrat">Download the guide in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WX-gP6Y2vFobw0XqT_aKcsd6-gaSBqZB/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color:#BF1E2E">English</span></a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-78ZAMGh2ccH8kvogNn9-zrRcSrZA0rj/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color:#BF1E2E">Spanish</span></a> or <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OoWeFYAsL1w6bzuM4r6y4plc9gHxui5q/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color:#BF1E2E">French</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:15.4pt;margin-bottom:15.4pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-family:Montserrat"><a href="https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/en/latest/gatj-tax-and-gender-working-group-launches-framing-feminist-taxation-vol2">https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/en/latest/gatj-tax-and-gender-working-group-launches-framing-feminist-taxation-vol2</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
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