Fair taxes to end poverty

Åsa Gunnarsson

Chapter 26 in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty, 2026, pp 446-461 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The book Tax Inequality and Human Rights, published in 2019, thoroughly discussed the links between human rights and tax norms, regarding both policies and regulations. Basically, the new interest in the relationship between how human rights connect to tax policies on global and national levels is related to a development of growing wealth and income inequalities. The dominant growth-promoting tax ideology on fiscal consolidation and neutrality, supported by powerful actors, has led to damaging consequences for social and economic sustainability. Tax reforms during the last decades have built tax systems with an outcome that is contradictory to the resource mobilization and redistribution that are necessary for the realization of human rights. It is obvious that Agenda 2030 demands a reset and a rebuild of fiscal systems that have the potential to combat poverty. This chapter will explore the fiscal sociology-based knowledge that we need in order to improve the substantive capacity of legal reforms to create inclusive societies.

Keywords: Tax fairness; Human rights; Tax sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035350506
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