For the kind attention of:
Mr. Ramy Youseff, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee to Draft Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
Cc: Permanent Representatives and Observers to the UN in New York, 15 March 2024
Subject: Joint civil society and trade unions submission in response to the call for inputs to the work of the Ad Hoc Committee to Draft Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned over 175 civil society organizations and trade unions, strongly welcome the UNGA Resolution 78/230, including the work to develop a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (FCITC). Furthermore, we appreciate the opportunity to submit inputs to the work of the Ad Hoc Committee to Draft Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (‘the Committee’).
Please find below a joint submission on behalf of the Civil Society FfD Mechanism and all of the undersigned organizations and trade unions. The submission was coordinated by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ), which facilitates the CS FfD Mechanism’s Tax Justice Workstream with the support of one its members, the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). GATJ is a Southern-led global coalition in the tax justice movement. We remain at your disposal if you would like to receive more information, or would be very happy to meet to discuss this issue further.
Yours sincerely,
Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism (www.csoforffd.org)
