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ActionAid launches tax justice campaign
Ghana Business News
Speaking at the launch of ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaign in Accra yesterday, Dr Siaw said no government “takes delight in over taxing its citizens and businesses”. The campaign, which is on the theme: “Progressive Tax, Progressive Spent”, is aimed at ...
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Action Aid internvention ensures increase in Girls enrollment in Northern ...
Myjoyonline.com
Girls' enrollment in four schools in the Nanumba North District in the Northern Region has seen an astronomical increase following an intervention by Action Aid Ghana. The intervention sought to promote the enrollment and retention of girls in school ...
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Action Aid Ghana Supports Wa School for the Deaf
AllAfrica.com
Action Aid Ghana has presented 100 mattresses and 100 plastic buckets to reduce the challenges of the inmates of the Wa School for the Deaf. The donation is part of Action Aid's commitment to ensuring that all people have a right to life in dignity. Mr ...
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ActionAid The Gambia is ActionAid Intenational's newest Affiliate!
Foroyaa online
The General Assembly of ActionAid International has unanimously accepted ActionAid International The Gambia as an Affiliate of the global ActionAid International federation. The motion for approval was made by the International Board at the Annual ...
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Abolish marriage by abduction – ActionAid
Ghana Business News
ActionAid Ghana is advocating the abolishing of marriage by abduction calling for the practice to be made a punishable offence by the end of 2014. The international NGO committed to fighting poverty and injustice in society, made the call to the ...
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Forget Tax Incentives, Actionaid Tells Govt
AllAfrica.com
Nairobi — ActionAid International has asked the government to eliminate discretionary tax incentives as they have no monetary and investment value. ActionAid International Head of Policy and Programs in Kenya Makena Mwobobia says that the country ...
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Over 5000 died in Uttarakhand floods: ActionAid
Times of India
DEHRADUN: More than 5,000 people perished in last month's landslides and flash floods in Uttarakhand, NGO ActionAid on Tuesday said. The NGO, which is carrying out relief operations in the state, added that estimating the number of dead was difficult.
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Abolish marriage by abduction - ActionAid
Citifmonline
Mr. George Dery, ActionAid Upper West Program Manager, spoke on behalf of the organization during a presentation of educational materials valued at GH¢6, 000.00 to some abducted girls, who were rescued and sent back to school by the Community ...
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Women appeal for credit to expand farms
Ghana Business News
She told the GNA that the intervention of ActionAid Ghana and Songtaba, both non-governmental organisations operating in the area, had helped women to venture into tuber and cereal cultivation. Madam Abulai said: “ ActionAid Ghana has encouraged me ...
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Government urged to avoid tax incentives to multinational firms
Coastweek
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Action Aid International has called on the Kenyan government to end tax incentives to multinational companies to help increase revenue and cut tax burden on ordinary Kenyans. According to a report released by ActionAid received on ...
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KENYA LOSING 100 BILLION ON TAX LURES
The Star
A report released yesterday by ActionAid,shows multinationals are being wooed to invest locally by huge incentives that don't benefit locals.The study says that if the multinationals are taxed, the money collected could help bridge budget deficit and ...
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FRIDAY - Dropping Tax Breaks Will End Poverty
Taxation: News & Information
Late last week the international development organisation ActionAid released a statement showing that tax breaks offered by developing countries to multinational businesses is costing a total over USD 138 billion per year in foregone tax revenues ...
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Zambia Sugar continues to deny tax avoidance claims
Lusaka Times
ActionAid, an activist group, said that ABF's Zambian subsidiary paid more than a third of the company's pre-tax profits out of Zambia into and via tax haven entities in Ireland, Mauritius and Holland. In a report released on Sunday, the non ...
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We're proud of our approach on wages
This is Hull and East Riding
It may be helpful to explain that the Living Wage is an ethical pay benchmark, which counts many leading companies and charitable organisations, such as Action Aid, Save The Children and Church Action on Poverty, among its accredited employers. .
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108 Girls Forced Into Marriage in Region
AllAfrica.com
The Action Aid Programme Manager, Mr. George Dery, has announced that a research into marriage by abduction in three districts in the Upper West Region has revealed that it is influenced by culture beliefs, poverty and societal pressure. Mr. Dery ...
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Kenya Losing Billions From Tax Breaks Granted
Bernama
The tax justice report released by non-governmental organisations ActionAid and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A) on Monday urged the government to abolish tax breaks instead of taxing basic commodities like food and transport. The report also calls ...
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Iron Acton Mash in the Meadow set to be big hit
South Cotswolds Gazette
IRON Acton and the surrounding area is gearing up for a live music extravaganza, organised by Action Aid. Heading the bill for Mash in the Meadow is soul-singing sensation Lizzie Deane and her band Soul Source. Bristol favourites Flash Harry will be ...
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Bleaching is dangerous to your health - Nurse warns
GhanaWeb
Mrs Mensah gave the caution at an Educational Career Fair jointly organised by Action Aid Ghana and Centre for Maternal and Community Empowerment (CMCE), for JHS students at Koforidua in the Asutifi District of Brong-Ahafo Region, to encourage them ...
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Tax Power! ActionAid's battle for tax justice goes global | ActionAid UK
Tax Power! ActionAid's battle for tax justice goes global. 4 July 2013 11:35 36 ...
www.actionaid.org.uk/.../tax-power-actionaids-battle-for-tax-j...
ActionAid launches tax justice campaign | General News
It will be difficult for the government to mobilise tax revenue to undertake sustainable development projects if businesses in the country do not pay their corporate ...
graphic.com.gh/.../actionaid-launches-tax-justice-campaign.ht...
News Blog: It's all about tax | ActionAid
Tax is a hot issue right now, and so it should be. In the last year a multitude of global companies have been exposed as Tax Dodgers and splashed across the  ...
www.actionaid.org/2013/07/news-blog-its-all-about-tax
Actionaid the gambia is actionaid intenational's newest affiliate!
The General Assembly of ActionAid International has unanimously accepted ActionAid International The Gambia as anAffiliate of the global ActionAid ...
www.foroyaa.gm/.../13667-actionaid-the-gambia-is-actionaid-...
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