June 2019
ICTD CEO Mick Moore signed a letter in the Guardian calling out the prejudice of the UK’s Home Office, which has been refusing visas to African researchers.
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ICTD CEO signs letter addressing the unfair visa system in the UK
June 2019
Our gender research was highlighted in the latest edition of “Impôts et Justice Sociale” podcast, the Francophone podcast by Tax Justice Network. Listen to the podcast here.
May 2019
The Journal du Senegal wrote about tobacco tax reform in West Africa following the project workshop that took place in Dakar on 29 April – 3 May.
April 2019
Martin Hearson was quoted in The East African’s article about the Kenya-Mauritius tax treaty ratification. Read what our researchers had to say in our blog post here.
March 2019
ICTD’s Rhiannon McCluskey was quoted in an article by Tatenda Gwaambuka on The African Exponent, an online outlet for reliable African news and in depth analysis of developments in business, finance, markets, politics, culture, science and technology. They made reference to her 2016 article on The Conversation on taxing rich Africans.
March 2019
ICTD’s book “Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development” was reviewed by Nicolas van de Walle in Foreign Affairs’ January/February 2019 issue.
February 2019
The meeting took place on February 5-8 in Kigali, Rwanda. The Commissioner General of the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), Pascal Ruganintwali, opened the meeting. RwandaTV captured the first day of the conference, interviewing our network members and Research Fellow and Capacity Building Manager Dr. Jalia Kangave.
February 2019
The 7th annual meeting was held on February 5-8 in Kigali, Rwanda. It was featured on the front page of the leading Kinyarwanda daily paper, Imvaho Nysha. Read the online article here.
February 2019
Igihe covered our meeting that took place in Kigali, Rwanda on February 5-8. The article title reads, Civil Society Organizations Urged to Follow-up Taxation Amongst Citizen. Read the article here.
January 2019
The International Centre for Investigative Reporting cited ICTD in their blog post discussing how unjust tax regimes make disability-inclusive development tasking. Read the ICiR article here. Another blog post by This Day makes the same points, citing ICTD’s research on taxing wealthy individuals. Read the This Day article here.
December 2018
ICTD research has recently been quoted in an article in New Vision titled “MPs want double taxation agreements renegotiated”. The article included reference to the ICTD Working Paper by Martin Hearson and Jalia Kangrave “A Review of Uganda’s Tax Treaties and Recommendations for Action”.
November 2018
The NTRN was featured in an opinion piece on tax accountability in Nigeria’s leading business and finance newspaper, BusinessDay. This article was also posted on PremiumTimes, an online news organisation based in Abuja. You can read the article here.
