Rushanara Ali – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rushanara Ali on 2016-04-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department plans to allocate to assist developing countries in tackling tax evasion in each of the next three years.

Mr Nick Hurd

The UK is one of the leading international donors on tax and development and contributes considerable resources to build tax capacity in developing countries including to tackle tax evasion. Through the Addis Tax Initiative, DFID has committed to doubling its financial support for tax by 2020.