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> Posted by Mildred Callear, Executive Vice President, SEAF
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For further questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International.
In the current political climate, and particularly at this time of year, it is rare that anyone speaks in favor of paying taxes! And when we think of financial inclusion, being included in the ranks of taxpayers is usually not the first item on the list.
But for those who operate primarily in the informal economy, NOT paying taxes can be the very thing that keeps them out of the formal sector and denies them a fair shot at real growth. Formal financial services are critical to breaking out of a subsistence level of business, yet even when informal firms have the choice to access such financial services, they may choose to stay out of the formal economy to avoid paying taxes and incurring other costs. Read the rest of this entry »
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