This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it means to be an economic ghost, how daily levies extract without recording, and what happens when the economic ghost reaches old age. This article asks what happens when she falls sick. When she gives birth. When she dies.   The voices in Kampala said: "I have never accessed free healthcare. Not once." Th

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it means to be an economic ghost, and how daily levies extract without recording. This article unpacks the second layer of invisibility named in Part Three: what happens to the economic ghost when she is old.   The woman who pays market fees for forty years will retire with nothing. The woman who pays presu

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, and what it means to be an economic ghost—visible in your daily contributions, invisible in official records.   Part Three introduced three layers of invisibility: the daily levies that extract without recording, the pension systems that exclude informal workers, and the problem of proving income without officia