About 38 African states convened this week for an action plan to harness the cash economy under the auspices of the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) in Durban. It emerged at the conference that the popular mode of conducting business in the continent involves cash transactions that are largely unrecorded, and gobble at least 38 percent of the continent's GDP in terms of unaccounted tax. Discussions centred mainly around the African cash economy and its implications for domestic resource mobilisation. Logan Wort, executive secretary at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) speaks to Elvis Presslin