From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
As the 4th United Nations Financing for Development Conference gets underway in New York, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), and others Civil Society actors have demanded a United Nations Convention on tax as key to global tax reforms.
This was contained in a statement by the Deputy Executive Director, ANEEJ, Leo Atakpu and made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.
The statement stated that Nigeria had been a major champion for tax reform or tax Convention at the United Nations.
The statement further stated that unfortunately, Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) which was developed last year, alongside 85 other INFFs of other developing countries of the global South did not contain any information about the UN Convention on Tax.
The statement added that Nigeria may have caved in to pressure from powerful nations and their agents.
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