Women are at the core of the fight against the COVID-19 crisis: they make up the vast majority of healthcare workers and shoulder much of the childcare and homeschooling burden during lockdowns. And while tax policy measures play a crucial role in supporting individuals and businesses as we navigate this crisis, the gender impact of taxation is often overlooked – with serious consequences for gender equality. To ensure that the tax system does not inadvertently reinforce gender biases in society, governments need to include the impact of taxes on gender as a key policy dimension in their tax policy responses to COVID-19. When it comes to tax and gender, let's #BuildBackBetter. This session presented the OECD’s framework on gender and discuss the impact of tax on gender, including the role of tax in the COVID recovery, gender and tax policy in developing countries and gender budgeting.
Event material
- Keynote address by Ambassador Brandt, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the OECD (PDF)
- Download presentation by Michelle Harding, OECD (PDF)