Tax justice & care
The tax you cannot escape
Consumption, survival, and the taxation of everyday life She buys food. VAT is already embedded in its price. She buys fuel. Excise is already embedded in its price. She buys so…
Care Economy
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…
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 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…
AI & ethics
The nobody at home
A visitor comes to the door. The call goes out. Is there anyone here? Is anyone at home? From within, a woman’s voice answers. No. Nobody. But she is there. Her daughters are th…