Tax justice & care
The time tax: Hours already taken
This series has named the care tax — the invisible extraction that sustains households and economies. Now we ask: what does that extraction do to a day? To a body? To a life? Th…
Luc Muhizi
Tax justice & care
The tax no one names
She wakes before dawn. The house is still dark. She fetches water. She prepares food. She readies children. Her day begins before the recognised working day starts — and continu…
Tax justice & care
The tax system treats the majority as the exception
Tax systems do not reflect economic life. They structure it around assumptions about income, time, and visibility. They are built on an implicit model of the taxpayer — stable i…
Tax justice & care
The citizen the tax system imagines
Who is recognised as a taxpayer — and who is treated as an exception? Tax systems are built around an implicit model of the taxpayer. Stable income. Formal employment. Individua…
Tax justice & care
Tax enforcement: Who gets punished — and who walks away?
The previous article asked who can comply and who struggles. This article asks: when compliance fails – or when the system decides to pursue – who is punished and who walks away…
Tax justice & care
Tax administration: Where power meets people
This series has examined what is taxed, how it is designed, and who pays. Now we ask: how do people actually comply? Who can enter the system, and who struggles before enforceme…
Tax justice & care
Who pays? The burden of tax extraction
This series has examined what is taxed and how it is designed. Now we ask: who actually pays? The myth of the taxpayer Tax systems tell a simple story: taxpayers are those who a…
Tax justice & care
How much? The design of tax extraction
This series has examined what counts as economic value. Now we ask: how is it designed? Design decides direction. Tax systems do not only decide what to tax. They decide how muc…
Tax justice & care
What counts? The politics of the tax base
This series moves from lived reality to the rules. The previous article asked who writes tax policy – at global, regional, and national levels. Now we ask: what does the system…
Tax justice & care
Taxation policy and law: Who decides?
This series moves from lived reality to the rules. The first article showed how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy built the tax system. Now we ask: who writes the rules to…
Tax justice & care
Built without us: The tax system designed by colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy
This series moves from lived reality to the rules. It asks who the system was built for, who it serves, and who it leaves out. The first article looks backwards—to the time befo…
Tax justice & care
The tax system that counts us: Who pays, who profits, who is erased
( A follow‑up to “The Tax System That Sees Us”) We have lived the reality. The market fee that leaves no record. The pension that never comes. The clinic with no drugs. The tax…