The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) has launched the ‘Scaling Up Tax Justice III’ (SCUT III) campaign to advocate gender-responsive tax justice in the country.
Development Diaries reports that the campaign, a regional tax justice advocacy, is in partnership with the Tax Justice Network Africa.
The campaign is being implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Liberia, Senegal, Cameroon, and Tunisia.
According to the Head of NETRIGHT, Patricia Akakpo, the project seeks to improve policies and laws to track and stop illicit financial flows (IFFs), enhancing fair and equitable tax revenue mobilisation and strengthening social contracts.
Akakpo stressed that the SCUT III campaign will focus on advancing gender-equitable tax regimes by promoting a fair and transparent tax system in Ghana.
‘With the support of trained tax justice champions, local communities will be engaged in gender equality and tax-related matters and encourage citizen participation in governance and tax-related decisions’, Ghanaian Times quoted Akakpo as saying.
She further added that the project will engage and influence policymakers to enact gender-responsive tax policies to address the specific needs and challenges faced by women in Ghana.
The capacity of a country to provide for the welfare and security of its citizens, as well as to develop and consolidate representative democracy, is determined by its ability to raise enough resources, usually through taxation.
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