In Bled Dry: How tax abuse, illicit financial flows and debt affect women and girls in Africa, we explore how tax abuse and illicit financial flows, and the resulting loss of public revenue, have pushed states towards regressive tax policies, debt, and austerity measures.
The Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) made written and oral submissions to the standing and select committees on finance on the fiscal framework and revenue proposals in May 2025.
These case studies show how profits are “shifted” within company groups through creative accounting tricks such as the use of
sales commissions, management fees, and loans between different branches of the same company structure.
This week, representatives of states from around the world are meeting in New York to negotiate the future of the international tax system.
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) will be hosting its first council meeting today. The process of changing AIDC’s governing structure to make provision for our partners to be members of the AIDC has ensured that the potential gap…
Today, the members of the United Nations voted to approve a resolution, tabled by the Africa Group, calling for the establishment of a United Nations framework convention on taxation. This is a landmark moment, marking possibly the biggest shift in…
The Alternative Information & Development Centre, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, Iglesias y Minería and the Justiça nos Trilhos will be hosting a webinar on Understanding Illicit Financial Flows from the Perspective of Workers and Communities in…
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) is inviting interested applicants who meet the criteria to apply for the vacancy of the Economic Justice Project Officer. This is a full-time position – the contract ends in December 2024 AIDC is a…
International tax and wage evasion by multi-or transnational corporations is a serious issue for all countries, but especially for Global South states with large extractives sectors. It is in these countries where the social and environmental damage of mining occurs,…
Illicit financial flows and base erosion profit shifting (IFFs and BEPS) have been called the ‘Achilles’ Heel’ of transnational corporations, because they present a vulnerability through which the architecture of corporate impunity can be tackled. Through both the interrogation of the…
