Join with Oxfam to make tax fair
What’s happening?
Extreme inequality is one of the defining issues of our time, and it is getting worse. Today, just 62 individuals have the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to hide $7.6 trillion. The fight against poverty will not be won until the inequality crisis is tackled.
Tax is one essential tool to ending extreme inequality, and could help lift millions of people out of poverty. Tax revenues collected by governments here and around the world are key to providing public services like healthcare, education and transport infrastructure for everyone – we all rely on the public services funded by tax.
Yet tax dodging by big business and the mega rich is driving this extreme inequality, costing developing countries at least $100 billion every year.
Oxfam’s efforts
Oxfam is calling on leaders to take action to show they are on the side of the majority, and to bring a halt to the inequality crisis by ending tax dodges and sharing the tax burden fairly to level the playing field: by shifting the tax burden away from labour and consumption and towards wealth, capital and income from these assets; increasing transparency on tax incentives; and introducing national wealth taxes.
Join with Oxfam in calling on our government to end tax dodging by big business, starting by demanding transparency from companies about how much they make and where.
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How you can help
To turn back the tide of extreme inequality, we must end the tax dodging of big business and the mega rich. Join with Oxfam in calling on our government to end tax dodging by big business. Sign the petition to Make Tax Fair.
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