Tax justice initiatives to maximise domestic resources mobilisation for quality education
Authors: Michèle Manpreet Ryatt and Georgia Thorne
The lack of financing for public education is caused by a variety of factors, whereby a notable issue is the lack of adequate investment by national and local governments (ActionAid, 2018). Tax justice initiatives encourage governments to improve taxation in order to increase revenue, to allocate more funding to social services, and implement mechanisms of transparency and accountability in tax collection and spending. Tax justice initiatives can be designed in a variety of ways, but they tend to include progressive tax schemes and multinational corporate taxing efforts. The cases of Tanzania, Bangladesh, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Pakistan illustrate different tax justice advocacy strategies, involving a variety of stakeholders with the goal of improving tax revenue and allocation for education.