...How tax is both spent and raised matters more for women than men because of gender inequality: globally a greater proportion of poor people are women and the distribution of unpaid care work is highly unequal.  ActionAid’s new briefing Making tax work for women’s rights looks at some of the ways in which tax revenue that is badly needed in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality is being lost due to tax breaks for corporates and regressive tax systems.  It also draws attention to the need for governments to spend tax revenues strategically, on the public services that women need....Tax avoidance by multinational companies due to loopholes in the international tax system is another way in which revenue to invest in public services is lost...Tax revenues need to be maximised in order that they can be spent on vital public services that will help to end gender inequality...[W]hen the rich are not taxed it is mainly men that keep control of those resources.  Governments must find the political will to reject the pressure of foreign and domestic businesses negotiating for tax cuts.  Instead they need to put in place progressive direct taxes which will raise the revenues required to deliver public services that women need...