{"id":236705,"date":"2026-06-18T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-outdated-tax-rules-threaten-fair-revenue-collection-in-digital-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:30:01","slug":"liberia-outdated-tax-rules-threaten-fair-revenue-collection-in-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-outdated-tax-rules-threaten-fair-revenue-collection-in-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Outdated Tax Rules Threaten Fair Revenue Collection in Digital Economy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Existing international tax rules are increasingly failing to capture economic value generated in the digital age, threatening governments&#8217; ability to collect fair revenues and widening inequalities between developed and developing countries, according to global tax and public finance expert Dr. Lyla Latif.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Speaking at the opening of the in-person International Tax Justice Academy (ITJA) Intermediate Course for Civil Society Organization (CSO) actors and media practitioners in Nairobi, Dr. Latif&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606180428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing international tax rules are increasingly failing to capture economic value generated in the digital age, threatening governments&#8217; ability to collect fair revenues and widening inequalities between developed and developing countries, according to global tax and public finance expert Dr. Lyla Latif. Speaking at the opening of the in-person International Tax Justice Academy (ITJA) Intermediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236706,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,12795,9633,5762,7724,4712,1107,257,29685,7343,10967,254,8352,7002],"class_list":["post-236705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collection","tag-digital","tag-economy","tag-fair","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-outdated","tag-revenue","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax","tag-threaten"],"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\/236705","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=236705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}