Africa – Tax Justice: More about human dignity and wellbeing than Money
Three Jesuit organisations, the Justice and Ecology Office of JCAM, the Nairobi-based Jesuit Hakimani Centre and the Jesuit Mission Office in Nurnberg, Germanycommissioned a research to study correlations between tax and poverty. The final report was presented at a conference titled “Domestic Resource Mobilisation and Stemming Illicit Financial Flows: Tax Justice for Promoting Equality and Social Justice”,that took place from 12-14 March in Nairobi, Kenya to consider the aspects of Tax Justice and Illicit Financial Flows. The conference attracted more than 100 delegates from across the world to the Kenyan capital city. Those gathered interrogated issues surrounding just taxation and poverty to offer solutions to this mammoth problem.Read more…,A video interview
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