Call To African Countries To Stand United And To Be Proactive In Calling For National, Regional, And Global Action On Financing For Development

To demand for a broad debt cancellation, AFRODAD collaborated with ActionAid International and other Pan-African and international CSOs WACSOF, EACSOF, SADC-CNGO, WACSI, TRUST AFRICA, OXFAM, CIVICUS, AFRICAN RISING and ANCEFA to call on countries of the African Union — or as many of them as possible —to be united in taking action to expand domestic tax revenue through ambitious and progressive tax reforms. African governments were also urged to stop the race to the bottom on corporate tax by agreeing to a minimum rate. In the light of Covid-19 there is also a compelling case for introducing new digital taxes, for example on big tech companies that have seen their profits rise dramatically during the pandemic.