Tax Power 2 - Tax pays for public services

Key ideas

Tax should help support public services. This is what taxes are for.
The lack of adequate public services has negative effects on people’s lives, especially on women.
Having to pay for private services such as private schools is paying twice, as tax has already been paid to have public education.

Public services map – how good are your local public services?
Tax body map – impact of a lack of public service financing (esp. on women/youth)
The ideal school – paying twice for education?
The ‘tax-pays-for’ photo – is tax used on public services?

Here you can download some useful resources.

To analyse the relative allocation of an individual or organisation's income on different categories of expenditure. It is a part…

This tool has been developed to support community organizations, district platforms and local communities to follow the process o…

To analyse the state of a public service (e.g. education) and the impacts on local people, and to analyse and prioritise the most…

A body map is used to look at the effects of not having public services on local people’s rights, especially women (and youth).Ob…

The idea that tax-pays-for-education is explored through a school mapping activity.ObjectivesTo explore links between paying taxe…

The relation between tax and public services is explored through a photo action.NB. This tool needs at least one camera or mobile…