The Global Alliance for Tax Justice and its members around the world are organising
Global Days of Action on #TaxJustice for #WomensRights, 8-20 March 2020!
Make Taxes Work for Women! Global Days of Action 2020
WHAT'S HAPPENING in 2020?
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OBJECTIVES OF THE GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION
In March 2020, GATJ, our members and our partners are urging movements, citizens’ groups and NGOs around the world to focus their efforts on achieving the following objectives:
- Highlight the tax injustices affecting women
- Demonstrate how tax justice is an integral part of struggles for women’s rights
- Make tax justice more relevant to ordinary people and their families
- Show national leaders that their citizens will not accept rising inequalities
- Unite the constituency of ordinary people who opposes the tax injustices
- Make multinationals pay their share
Start planning your creative actions to promote #TaxJustice for Women’s Rights in the Global Days of Action, 8-20 March 2020!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please join us in organising the following activities and actions in the lead up to and during the month of March 2020:
Write a blog
Organise educational discussions in your community
Share stories about women & tax injustices in your country
Popular Education
- Circulate all the material shared through this page: “Making Taxes Work for Women”, Issue Briefs to support our five demands, etc.
- Organise forums in communities, schools and workplaces.
Social Media and Communications
- Ask for our Social Media and Communications Toolkit, which will include template advocacy letters, briefings and press releases for adaptation in several languages.
- Social Media Activities – using memes and short video clips, photos/quotes from women and girls around the world who are most affected by these issues.
- Hold press conferences and send out press releases during the month of March 2019, including a virtual press conference ahead of IWD.
- Share Factsheets – with key statistics / messaging / Q&As on these issues.
Policy Engagements
- Engage in policy dialogues with national members of Parliament and tax officials.
- Engage in parallel events during the UN CSW 64 in New York.
- Engage in national budget and tax processes.
Mobilisations
- Participate in/organise 8 March IWD marches and actions carrying our demands: Speak out for #TaxJustice at the International Women's Day
- Address your Finance Minister with our demands!
- Participate in inside/outside actions during the UN CSW 64.
GET IN TOUCH WITH US!
We are here to share materials with you, support your efforts and give them echo. For more information on how to organise, take part in, and share your activities during the Global Days of Action, feel free to get in touch with GATJ through :
- Africa: Cynthia Umurungi, Tax Justice Network-Africa
- North America, South America, and Europe: Marie Antonelle Joubert, Global Alliance for Tax Justice
- Asia: Joy Hernandez, Global Alliance for Tax Justice
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
The proposed Global Days of Action serve as an opportunity to make tax justice issues resonate with ordinary people and women who are active at the grassroots level. This March, as we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), we will be calling on tax justice and women’s rights activists around the globe: to highlight the tax issues affecting women; to ensure that tax justice is embedded in the broader women’s rights agenda; and to build a movement that upholds gender-just, progressive and transformative tax policies.
The Global Days of Action will have a public-facing launch on International Women’s Day on 8 March and an advocacy push to coincide with the UN CSW on 9-20 March. In addition, various forms of actions all over the world will be coordinated to increase the visibility of tax justice issues in general, and those affecting women in particular.
More information will be added to this pages in the coming weeks!
WHAT'S AT STAKE?
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars of public revenues is lost through illicit financial flows and capital flight through tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations. This deprives governments of the much-needed resources to fund public services, social protection and infrastructure to address inequalities. Marginalized women and those living in poverty are impacted the most. Secondly, regressive and discriminatory tax policies used to raise government revenue continues to have negative impacts on poor people, especially women. In addition, unpaid care work mostly carried out by women remains invisible in the economy. Governments therefore need to act for tax justice by need to recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work; collect tax revenues in a progressive and gender-just manner, as a sustainable way to finance the commitments to end poverty and reduce inequality. Tax revenue justice needs to be a lived reality for women and girls everywhere.
It is against this background that the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and partners will hold the Global days of action. GATJ will therefore act as a uniting and campaigning front for the global tax justice movement and women´s rights movement – bringing together civil society groups in coalitions at the national, regional and international levels. This will be done through collectively designed actions and promotion of alternate solutions to help individual efforts achieve greater visibility and impact.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
- Demand 1. Stop illicit financial flows and harmful tax practices that facilitate tax avoidance and tax evasion and are biased towards wealthy countries, multinational corporations, and the wealthy. Including through the establishment of an inclusive intergovernmental UN Global Tax body, where all countries have a seat at the table and equal say in determining international tax rules.
- Demand 2. Reduce unfair tax burdens on women and adopt progressive and gender just taxation – including new forms of taxation of capital and wealth - combined with less reliance on consumption taxes which harm the poor, a majority of who are women.
- Demand 3. Remove gender bias and discrimination in tax policies to realise the macroeconomic commitments from the Beijing Declaration which called on nations to “review and modify macroeconomic policies especially tax policies to address the structural causes of poverty and reduce gender inequality” including through practice gender budgeting to ensure that tax revenues are raised and spent in ways that promote gender equality;
- Demand 4. Ensure tax and fiscal policies recognise and serve to represent, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work.
- Demand 5. Increase allocation of tax revenues for gender responsive social services
