{"id":299,"date":"2006-12-18T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/18\/a-guide-to-tax-work-for-ngos\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T08:38:43","slug":"a-guide-to-tax-work-for-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/18\/a-guide-to-tax-work-for-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to tax work for NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span>A new publication called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalbudget.org\/GuideTaxWork.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A guide to tax work for NGOs<\/a>\",written by Joel Friedman and published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalbudget.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Budget Project<\/a> has just been published.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">This guide is intended to help demystify revenue policy issues and give civil society budget groups the tools they need to influence revenue policy in the same way that they have been able to influence expenditure policy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">The guide discusses revenue issues, and especially taxes such as the value-added tax and personal income tax. It provides a basic description of different tax types, discusses some of the key debates, gives examples from a range of countries, and provides ideas for revenue-related projects that groups might want to undertake.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">The following areas are covered:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">the importance of revenue issues to civil society groups<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">fairness and equity issues in tax policy and the value of tax administration<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">examples of basic and advanced civil society revenue projects<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">a guide to revenue analysis techniques<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">selected policy issues including income tax and those relating to extractive industries.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">a detailed bibliography is presented together with a guide to further sources of information.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\">I strongly recommend it to anyone with concern in this area.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"de-ch\" xml:lang=\"de-ch\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new publication called &#8220;A guide to tax work for NGOs&#8221;,written by Joel Friedman and published by the International Budget Project has just been published.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/18\/a-guide-to-tax-work-for-ngos\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}