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April 2025 Newsletter

ECOSOC Highlights | GDOA Recap | Updates from GATJ’s Members


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GATJ Executive Coordinator, Dereje Alemayehu speaking at the ECOSOC Special Meeting.

UN ECOSOC Special Meeting on International Cooperation in Tax Matters

On March 28th, GATJ Secretariat and regional members participated ([link removed]) in the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Special Meeting on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. During the meeting, GATJ’s members made interventions on the need for a robust UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention) with broad support from countries.

On behalf of GATJ’s Tax and Gender Working Group, Everlyn Muendo, Tax Policy Lead at TJNA, presented an intervention on the need to address gender equality through tax policy design and implementation. “Tax systems are not neutral; a tax system that fails to consider the gendered economic realities such as income disparity and the burden of unpaid and underpaid care work reinforces inequalities… The UN Tax Convention negotiations present a historic opportunity to create an equitable global tax system. We urge governments to incorporate gender-transformative provisions in the UN Tax Convention,” Muendo shared.


** GDOA on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights
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The visual summary of the 2025 Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights.

Progressive Taxation for an Inclusive and Just Social Organisation of Care Now!

From March 7th to 21st, tax justice campaigners, women’s rights advocates, feminist scholars, trade unions, and grassroots movements from around the world came together to demand #ProgressiveTax4Care and to #MakeTaxesWorkForWomen as part of the 9th edition of GATJ’s Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women's Rights,

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** GATJ’s Members
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe (RJFALC) hosted impactful webinars during the Global Days of Action. Read the highlights and watch the webinars from Connections Between Fiscal Justice, Care, and Cimate Justice ([link removed]) and Collectively Building New Narratives On Care ([link removed]) .

AFRICA

Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) commenced the 2025 Tax Justice Journalists Training Program ([link removed]) from March 4th to April 10th, with participation from close to 30 African journalists. From March 19th to 21st, TJNA hosted its second Anti-IFFs Policy Tracker piloting workshop ([link removed]) in Uganda. TJNA also hosted members of the High-Level Panel on illicit financial flows from Africa for an exclusive Fireside Chat ([link removed]) .

ASIA

Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TAFJA) members held events during the Global Days of Action including March 8th International Women’s Day actions ([link removed]) .
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NORTH AMERICA

Canadians for Tax Fairness (C4TF) released a new report ([link removed]) exploring how 40 years of neoliberal tax policies entrenched the affordability crisis in Canada. They also launched a series of town halls ([link removed]) looking at progressive tax policy solutions to help lower the cost of living.

The Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition shared that following the firing of roughly 7,000 U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees in February, reports now indicate that the IRS is planning to cut its remaining active workforce of more than 90,000 staff by a further half. In a statement ([link removed]) , FACT Executive Director Ian Gary said that the move, if executed, would “represent an existential threat to the revenues needed to operate the federal government.”

EUROPE

Tax Justice Europe (TJ-E) members participated ([link removed]) in the Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights.

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