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Briefing paper

Resisting the Rule of the Rich

19/01/2026

9 documents

69 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Extreme inequality is reaching new heights. In 2025, billionaire wealth increased three times faster than the average annual rate over the previous five years. Meanwhile, one in four people don’t regularly have enough to eat and nearly half the world’s population live in poverty. The super-rich are becoming a new oligarchy, using their extreme wealth […]

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Briefing paper

How to increase taxes on fossil fuel profits

19/12/2025

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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Taxing excess profits, both in the fossil fuel industry and the overall corporate sector, is essential to restructure the economy to tackle climate breakdown, reduce inequality and make rich polluters pay. This briefing paper sets out Oxfam’s proposal for two taxes: a Rich Polluter Profit Tax (RPPT) on fossil fuel corporations, and an Excess Profit […]

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Briefing paper

Change the Way You Do Business: Leading with women workers voices

18/03/2025

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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This second briefing in the Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work series explores how systemic business practices perpetuate gender inequality through informal work, particularly in feminized sectors with large numbers of women workers, like tea and garments. Through women workers’ voices and case studies, the briefing reveals how patriarchal norms and inequitable practices exacerbate […]

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Briefing paper

Valued: Breaking the link between paid and unpaid care, poverty and inequalities across Britain

16/04/2024

4 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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This briefing paper shows how the undervaluation of paid and unpaid care drives poverty and inequalities across Britain, and it outlines a transformational vision for change. Every day, millions of people, mostly women, provide essential paid and unpaid care for children and disabled, ill and older people. Yet their huge contribution remains widely unseen, undervalued […]

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Case study

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

22/10/2020

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study offers a compelling story of how-long term influencing and political will by government helped widen Uganda’s tax base and raise vital additional finance for poverty-busting public spending on the social sector. It demonstrates that it is practically and politically feasible to increase government revenues by increasing the tax take from the richest individuals […]

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Briefing paper

Examining the Crude Details: Government audits of oil and gas project costs to maximize revenue collection

13/11/2018

12 documents

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The petroleum sector offers governments huge potential revenues that could be invested in poverty alleviation and inequality reduction, but those revenues must first be collected. Taxes are levied on profits, but companies may seek to reduce their taxes by deducting ineligible or exaggerated costs, often paid to related parties. Governments’ essential tool to combat petroleum […]

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Education resource

A Fair Share: A simulation game for 7-14 year olds exploring tax

06/02/2018

4 documents

Languages: English

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Why should we pay tax? Do we all pay our fair share? And how should we pay for the things we all need to lead healthy, happy and safe lives? Through playing this simulation game, learners will discuss and draw their own conclusions about whether everyone pays their fair share, as well as reflect on […]

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Resisting the Rule of the Rich

How to increase taxes on fossil fuel profits

Change the Way You Do Business: Leading with women workers voices

Valued: Breaking the link between paid and unpaid care, poverty and inequalities across Britain

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

Examining the Crude Details: Government audits of oil and gas project costs to maximize revenue collection

A Fair Share: A simulation game for 7-14 year olds exploring tax