From June 30 to July 3, countries and stakeholders will meet in Sevilla, Spain for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Mobilizing domestic public resources, particularly through taxation, has been a main pillar of the FfD process.

GATJ’s latest publication, From Monterrey to Sevilla: International Tax Cooperation in the Financing for Development Conferences, traces the evolution of the FfD process, from the 2002 FfD1 in Monterrey to present-day FfD4 in Sevilla, as well as the origins of the call for a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention).

The FfD process has played a critical role in putting domestic resource mobilization and the broader structural challenges of international tax cooperation on the international agenda. Now, a historic shift is underway. One month after the conclusion of FfD4, countries will meet at the UN in New York to begin negotiating a UN Tax Convention, alongside two early protocols.

From Monterrey to Sevilla underscores what has been achieved and what is at stake: an opportunity to build an international tax system that supports all countries, especially those in the Global South, to access their own tax base and mobilize the resources urgently needed for public services, development, gender equality, human rights, and climate action.

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For more information, please contact GATJ’s Global Communications Coordinator, Alexandra Wenzel, at [email protected].