We all know that Bobi Wine went back to school this year, isn’t it? Well, like what lawyers are known for, the musician lately thinks like a lawyer too, a career he is pursuing at university.
He is now into fighting against bad tax policies and together with other law students from 10 universities around East Africa and members of the civil society, the group launched a campaign against tax flows.
Dubbed the ‘Stop Bleeding Campaign’, it is aimed at tackling illicit financial flows mainly through bad tax policies.
“I personally have a problem with the unjustified tax incentives to the so called investors where at the end of the day, for every dollar we attract from them, we lose three (according the Mbeki report),” said the musician whose property was once impounded over failure to pay taxes.
The campaign calls on African governments to unite for progressive tax reform and challenges the rest of the world to make tax systems fairer to help end poverty and inequality.
According to (Thabo) Mbeki’s report, released this year, it was found that once adequate revenue flows are aligned to a well-articulated structural transformation strategy, they can assist Africa to curtail dependency on aid, provide better public services to the people and to gain stronger control of the path to sustainable development in Africa.
