In a move the could effectively test the will of governments in poor countries to meaningfully re-direct billions of dollars lost to developmental pursuits on account of the profligacy of tax evasion, the United Nations is urging a clampdown on ‘tax dodgers’ as a means of garnering finances to help rebuild education systems in poor countries seriously afflicted by COVID-19.
With the garnering of resources for undertaking the task of breathing new life into global education delivery systems battered for most of 2020 by the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, a United Nations Policy Brief titled “Education During COVID-19 And Beyond” issued in August, is calling on governments to aggressively rein in tax dodgers as a means of ensuring that the state can garner more resources to pour into the revival of countries’ education systems reeling from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
