Taxation and Human Rights Sharife, Khadija Kidwingira, Sandra Mshana, Vera Tax, Transparency Taxation has traditionally been understood as a fundamentally “economic” or “development-related” undertaking by which policy makers generate revenue for socio-economic development. Primarily therefore, fiscal policy makers are concerned with the “economic” aspects of taxation (notably the maximization of tax revenue) rather than non-economic aspects like human rights and it is hardly surprising that the latter have remained secondary preoccupations. Nairobi: Tax Justice Network Africa, 2011. 2011. Text 16p. http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/africa_tax_spotlight_6th_edition-taxation_and_human_rights.pdf