About Tax Justice Network - Africa

Tax Justice Network-Africa (TJN-A) is a Pan-African initiative established in 2007 and a member of the global Tax Justice Network. TJN-A seeks to promote socially just, democratic and progressive taxation systems in Africa, advocating for pro-poor tax regimes and the strengthening of tax regimes to promote domestic resource mobilization. TJN-A aims to challenge harmful tax policies and practices that favour the wealthy and aggravate and perpetuate inequality

Thematic Areas

  • Part of existing strategies used by governments to foster private sector-led economic growth has been to engage in tax competition.  Tax competition takes place when countries (or
  • The relationship between the level of domestic democratic accountability in a country, and the source and manner of collection of public money has been well-documented.  Evidence has
  • Illicit financial flows are amounts of income, which are legally or illegally earned in a country, and are illegally transferred out of that country’s jurisdiction in an effort to conceal
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Call for Expression of Interest to Develop a Manual and Methodology for Computing a Fair Tax Index for Africa

 Tax Justice Network-Africa, SEATINI-Uganda and Oxfam Novib would like to hire the services of a highly qualified and technical consultant to develop a manual and methodology for computing a Fair Tax Index for Africa.