Contents
Tax advocacy activities
Awareness-raising
Lobbying
Media – expanding your reach
- Planning your media strategy
- Which media will you use?
- Always research your media
- What does the media want?
- Different ways of communicating with the media
Campaigning – popularising your tax advocacy
Engaging with corporates
- Research and reporting on corporate conduct
- Direct engagement with companies
- Corporate social responsibility and voluntary standards
- Shareholder action
- Public campaigning towards corporates
Linking up – networks and coalitions
Group activities
References
This chapter is about how to implement your tax advocacy strategy effectively. It looks at different activities you can undertake as part of your overall strategy.
The chapter provides guidance, top tips and tools to help you effectively:
- raise awareness of your chosen tax issue
- lobby and negotiate, including putting your positions to decision-makers in writing
- use the media
- campaign on tax
- engage corporates on tax.
Depending on what approach you are adopting to your tax advocacy, you can pick and choose which of the above activities work for your context.
The interaction pages provide suggestions for group activities:
- Drafting policy recommendations
- Delivering your key messages verbally
- A lobbying role-play to practise how to be an effective lobbyist
- Practising doing a radio interview
- Developing a campaign slogan.