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Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) to host virtual capacity building for tax Justice advocates
Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) has embraced innovation to remain on course and will be hosting a virtual capacity building a for tax justice advocates in Africa.
The Network says that with the onslaught of the global coronavirus pandemic, there are concerns that the scale and scope of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) could be increasing.
“While authorities focus on the pandemic, other actors should not be distracted,” said the executive director, Alvin Mosioma.
On June 24,2020, TJNA marked its 7th Edition with the theme: Tax Justice Advocacy: Increasing Participation of Civil Society Organizations.
“(CSOs) and Journalists through Capacity Building. The 7 the edition of the International Tax Justice Academy (ITJA), which is organized virtually, brings together participants from the entire continent drawn from the civil society, media, trade unions, policy makers and academia,” said Mosioma.
Some of the themes that ITJA id holding in this year’s session, include: taxing the digitalized economy, tax justice advocacy strategy, IFFs, and Africa’s investment regimes, financial secrecy, investigative journalism, amongst others.
“Africa is endowed with significant natural resource wealth and, with good husbandry, could finance its development,” Mosioma stated.
It says that there, however, exist illegal cross border movement of money and capital that threaten the continent’s sustainable development and have been growing every year.
