Integrity Watch Liberia and Tax Justice Network Africa convened a capacity building workshop on Beneficial Ownership (BO) for more than 20 CSOs at iCampus in Monrovia. The target of the workshop was to enhance the knowledge and capacity for civil society organizations and individual activists covering topics on beneficial ownership transparency. The training explored emerging issues on beneficial ownership including implementing BO legislation, gold standards on BO, impact of global leaks like the pandora papers and how BO affects tax justice at country, regional and global levels. 

The training also aimed to equip CSOs with information on the fiscal regime and revenue management pillar of the Governance Minerals Framework domestication and to provide a platform to CSOs and other stakeholders to network and share information on how to carry out advocacy work differently for improved citizens’ work in holding the Government, mining companies and parliament to account on BO information and Taxation of the EI sector

At the end of this session, participants were able to understand various emerging issues that impact on taxation and tax justice, specifically Beneficial Ownership and taxation of the EI sector.