"Which lower income countries have given up most of their power to tax global companies?"

Tax treaties are reducing the taxes paid by multinational companies and depriving the world’s poorest communities of money that could fund essential public services. When public services are deprived of funding, it’s women and girls who are hit the hardest, worsening global inequality. Tax treaties dictate which country has the right to tax a multinational company’s profits. We have found that generally, these are unfair and benefit the higher income country over the lower income country.

ActionAid has commissioned independent research which cracks open these opaque and outdated treaties – analysing more than 500 treaties that higher income countries have with lower and lower middle income countries in Africa and Asia.