Published 1 July 2025
Tax Transparency in Africa 2025 is a key output of the Africa Initiative, a programme established in 2014 to ensure that African countries are equipped to exploit the latest improvements in global transparency, to better tackle tax evasion and other illicit financial flows and ultimately improve domestic resource mobilisation to support their economic development.
The 2025 edition co-produced by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum) and the African Tax Administration Forum will be launched during the 17th meeting of the Africa Initiative on 1 July 2025 in the Seychelles.
The report presents insights from 40 African countries, with impressive figures, case studies and testimonies showing the concrete results achieved. It highlights African countries’ commitment and progress in advancing the implementation and use of the international tax transparency standards, i.e. the Standard on Transparency and Exchange of Information on Request (EOIR) and the Standards on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI), to combat tax evasion and other forms of illicit financial flows (IFFs) from Africa.
With currently 39 African country members and 17 partners and donors, the Africa Initiative drives the tax transparency agenda in Africa through enhanced political commitment and capacity building, which support the mobilisation of domestic resources and the fight against illicit financial flows in Africa.
