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ABSTRACT<\/em><\/p>\n I attended the 7th WATAF Policy Dialogue and 21st General Assembly in Freetown, Sierra Leone in September, where tax leaders, policymakers, and experts from across West Africa met, not for a ‘talkshop’, but for a serious conversation about Africa’s fiscal future. In this reflection, I share my observations, lessons, and takeaways from the sessions that tackled domestic revenue mobilization, fair taxation, and the region’s shared resolve to build stronger, digital-driven tax systems. From…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> ABSTRACT I attended the 7th WATAF Policy Dialogue and 21st General Assembly in Freetown, Sierra Leone in September, where tax leaders, policymakers, and experts from across West Africa met, not for a ‘talkshop’, but for a serious conversation about Africa’s fiscal future. In this reflection, I share my observations, lessons, and takeaways from the sessions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6688,6572,257,6470,27392,6571,1135,254,25415],"class_list":["post-209856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dialogue","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-reflections","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wataf"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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