A pleasure to speak at this exciting conference!

Looks amazing!

Still time to join this, just started!

Mr Alpha Ngom - Directorate General of Taxation and Areas - explained the importance of improving tax regulations for ease of compliance through ATAF's technical assistance and country programmes during the AUC-ATAF Side Event at the AfDB Annual Meetings. #ATAF #AfDBAM2023

It's up! Four changes needed for this to be a structural break in global tax governance: 1. Lower-income countries in agenda-setting mode 2. Abandon ambition of deep, universal consensus 3. Rethink what countries cooperate about 4. Fix the technical-political disconnect

Great to see our conference occupying the Kenya School of Revenue Administration homepage! More info: ictd.ac/event/conferen…

Excellent piece by Martin Hearson (@[email protected]) . An important historical juncture indeed. Our experience negotiating at the IF over the last few years have taught us much. Now is the time! Have we reached a critical juncture for global tax governance? ictd.ac/blog/critical-… via International Centre for Tax and Development

Great blog by Martin Hearson (@[email protected])! I really agree with the point about the need for a variety of policy options for governments to choose from. The era of one-size-fits-all is well and truly over! Not just in relation to international tax, but domestic tax issues as well.

We are live with panel 1! youtube.com/watch?v=7IGI0K…

📢 Join us this afternoon as we discuss #Kenya's successes and challenges in international taxation, and what other countries can learn from its experience, moderated by ALVIN MOSIOMA of Open Society Foundations. 🇰🇪🌍 📺Tune in to the livestream here youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7Pvl…

💥 Powerful all-female panel here in Nairobi discussing Africa's future in international tax negotiations and standard setting. 🚺🌍 Annet Oguttu: "The era of waiting for the West to do things for us has to come to an end. We need to create our own table.”

In Nairobi, spontaneous applause as @leandre2711 agues for her proposal, set out in this blog. Africa Rising: A Proposal for a Continental Tax Governance Structure ictd.ac/blog/africa-co… via International Centre for Tax and Development

"We need to work as a country to avoid being victims of digital colonization.” Who makes the rules, reaps the rewards. Ghanaian parliamentarians debate regulating artificial intelligence. dw.com/en/ghana-debat…

"Heart of dankness"

How nice that my article on China in global tax governance, with my International Centre for Tax and Development colleague Wilson Prichard, is included on this reading list. And what an interesting set of articles too!

Weekend reading from me!

Welcome to Ghana

London - come join us tomorrow at SOAS Middle East Institute! Entry is free but registration required (link below). [If you're not in London (or Brighton next week, or Oxford or Pisa in May), I'm working on further book talk dates.]

Today we speak the name of our research partner and colleague Omar al-Khatib who is held in detention without charge or trial alongside thousands of other Palestinians by the Israeli state. ids.ac.uk/opinions/israe…

Too close to the bone.