Training Catalog Course Details

¿This course, presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department, is designed to broaden participants’ knowledge of the main challenges governments face¿in designing, administering, and¿monitoring¿of a modern tax system. It briefly outlines the theoretical underpinnings of tax policymaking and discusses in detail its practice and implementation with an emphasis on the region the course is directed to. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences¿in¿developing¿strategies to improve their tax systems and how they are implemented and administered. Through lectures, Q&A sessions and workshops, the course:¿¿ 

• Provides¿an overview of policy design principles and their implications for tax administration—establishing¿linkages between tax policy and administration and showing how functions feed into¿one another;¿ 
• Reviews design and administration issues for major taxes that form modern tax systems (e.g.,¿broad-based consumption and income taxes, property taxes,¿excises, and small business tax regimes) and discusses approaches to tax policymaking and administration in specific economic and institutional settings, such as resource-rich countries, fragile countries, and countries in economic blocs/customs¿unions, international taxation (e.g., taxation of the digital economy, taxation of multinational enterprises);¿ 
• Discusses the organization and operations of tax administrations and the management of tax compliance, drawing on experiences within and beyond the¿region;¿ 
• Gives an overview of emerging and topical issues in tax policy and administration and their implications for tax systems in each region.¿