Tobacco tax consortium reviews progress at second strategy meeting

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TJNA will be hosting the African Tobacco Tax Consortium (ATTC) for its second strategy meeting from 10 to 12 September in Flic en Flac, Mauritius. The meeting will seek to evaluate the progress of the joint initiatives in the past year, including highlighting partners’ activities and the challenges identified.

AATC is a collaborative platform hosted by TJNA bringing together organisations with expertise in tobacco tax policy and that are working to fair tobacco tax policies in Africa. The partners are the World Health Organization (WHO), the Economics of Excisable Products Research Unit (REEP) at the University of Cape Town, the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), Consortium Pour le Recherche Economique et Sociale (CRES), TJNA and are supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).

The meeting will define objectives and strategies for country-level interventions and develop a joint action plan. In addition, the consortium will develop strategies and map the way forward including positioning the ATTC as a continental expert or thought leader on tobacco tax policy advocacy and research.

The meeting will also include a knowledge and experience-sharing exchange with the Mauritian revenue and health authorities. Mauritius is the first country in Africa country to achieve the WHO recommended benchmark that total taxes should account for 68 per cent of the full retail price (FRP) of tobacco products and as such there are opportunities to contextualise best practices from Mauritius in the joint partner countries.

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For more information about the African Tobacco Tax Consortium, please contact Chileshe Mange at cmange[@]taxjusticeafrica.net.