Gideon Sarpong

Gideon Sarpong

Gideon Sarpong is a Ghanaian policy analyst and media practitioner with close to a decade of experience in policy, environmental, and investigative journalism. He emerged winner for the Telecoms and ICTs category. His story, ‘How Multinational Tech Companies Exploit Tax Laws and Shift Profit: a focus on Ghana and Nigeria’ identifies the lapses in the current tax systems and how Ghana and Nigeria are dealing with profit shifting and tax avoidance. It exposes how major tech companies, Facebook and Google, use tax havens to avoid payment of taxes in Nigeria and Ghana, depriving these countries of revenue which could be invested in many deprived areas. Click https://iwatchafrica.org/2020/03/04/how-multinational-tech-companies-exploit-tax-laws-and-shift-profit-a-focus-on-ghana-and-nigeria/ to read the story.