01263nam a22001337a 4500 Chiara Capraro and Francesca Rhodes Why the Panama Papers Are a Feminist Issue U. K. Open Democracy 2016 3p. The world is talking about tax this week, and here’s another tax story. Asana Abugre has a small shop in Accra, Ghana where she makes and sells batiks and tie-dyed textiles. Asana pays her taxes regularly. Women like her, working in markets across the city, sometimes pay up to 37% of their income in tax. Tax collectors come to their shops to collect taxes, and there is no chance of them not paying, regardless of how little money they might have made that day. The release of the Panama Papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is the biggest data leak in history, and this time it’s some of the world’s most powerful people who have cause to worry, with the spotlight finally falling on their own secretive tax arrangements. These stories are linked showing that financial secrecy and tax avoidance is a feminist issue. Tax Evasion, Poverty, Inequality iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/Why the Panama Papers are feminist issue.pdf CF 517 517