From 21 to 25 November, GATJ and its regional networks will convene the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry 2022. The 4th edition of the campaign builds on the demands that the GATJ members have been pushing for since 2019, and calls more specifically for excess profits taxes on oil, mining and gas companies.
Social movements, particularly in climate, labour and gender justice, have been raising proposals for the extractive sector to operate responsibly with communities and the environment. Building connections with these demands, this campaign brings the perspectives of tax justice and the broader economic justice movement, calling for a rights-based economy that puts people and the planet at the centre of discussions and decision-making.
We hope to count on you to take our messages further to governments and multilateral institutions! An inclusive and equitable recovery will only happen with tax justice.
In solidarity,
GATJ Secretariat
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🌏 Global tax justice demands
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We are calling on governments and multilateral institutions to:
- Stop illicit financial flows and tax abuses in the extractives sector;
- Tax the superprofits of extractives corporations by instituting windfall profit taxes;
- Curb tax incentives granted to the extractives industry;
- Make extractives companies pay their share in taxes and immediate costs of rehabilitation and rebuilding;
- Use taxes for peoples' needs, especially for the needs of communities affected by social and environmental damage; and
- Protect and uphold the rights of workers and women affected by mining, including their rights to defend their communities.
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18 November | 11 am Pretoria
Resource Backed Loans Collateralization of Mineral Resources
Warming up for the GDOA for Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry, Afrodad & TJNA will host an online discussion to analyse whether resource backed loans and collateralisation of mineral resources are a sustainable financing option for African countries and showcase how the current international financial system contributes to a vicious cycle of dependence on RBLs.
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21 November | 2 pm CET
Launch event: Tax extractives excess profits NOW!
GATJ and its regional networks will kick off the GDOA for Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry 2022 with an online round table, in which panellists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America will discuss the main issues each region has been facing with the extractives, as well as what could be achieved through tax justice and, more specifically, excess profits taxes in the sector.
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