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Woman carrying a large bowl of shea nuts with a baby tied behind her back in Ghana.
March 2025|
Blog

Time for a broader, bolder approach to tax justice for women

by Giulia Mascagni, Caren Grown & Rhiannon McCluskey

As policymakers gather to discuss gender and tax at the UN today, this blog draws on research to call for moving beyond a narrow focus on gender bias in tax policy toward a broader, more effective feminist fiscal approach to advance gender equality. …

Factsheet

Zakat Payments in Pakistan Exceed State Social Protection

Event
Wide picture showing partially a conference room with people sitting around a U shaped table looking at a projected presentation with a speaker
21 January 2025 - 24 January 2025
ICTD presenting on gender issues in tax administrations at CREDAF

Integrating the gender dimension into public finances, and in particular taxation, has become a challenge for…

News
Closeup on a paper hanging from a typewriter, with the word TAX highlighted among a series of numbers
November 2024
CoP on Gender & Tax Explores Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models

At the last meeting of the Community of Practice on Gender and Tax (CoPGT), held on…

Working Paper

Does Having More Women in Parliament Result in More Gender- Sensitive Tax Policies? A Case Study of Uganda’s Parliament

Research in Brief

Women in Ethiopian Tax Administration: Evidence on Representation and Performance

Working Paper

Women in Ethiopian Tax Administration: Evidence on Representation and Performance

Photo of women of Takalafiya-Lapai village, Niger State, Nigeria
January 2023|
Blog

Mobile money tax: Is there a gender gap?

by Hannelore Niesten & Mary Abounabhan

Gender and tax: As Africa increasingly introduces specific taxes on digital financial services (DFS) such as mobile money, do DFS taxes exacerbate or reduce gender inequality?…

Red vodafone mobile money kiosk in Ghana
October 2022|
Blog

New data on the e-levy in Ghana: Unpopular tax on mobile money transfers is hitting the poor hardest

by Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Michael Rogan & Nana Akua Anyidoho

In Ghana, the “e-levy” has been linked to the current administration’s “Ghana Beyond Aid” strategy for reducing aid dependence….

Journal Article

Do tax policies discriminate against female traders? A gender framework to study informal marketplaces in Nigeria

Event
Women in Tax: A Conversation on Research and Policy in Africa
18 March 2021
Women in Tax: A Conversation on Research and Policy in Africa

In celebration of International Women’s Day and alongside the sixty-fifth session of the UN Commission on…

This Women’s Day, we need to talk about toilet taxes
March 2020|
Blog

This Women’s Day, we need to talk about toilet taxes

by Jalia Kangave

In 2018, the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) published findings from a research study…

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