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Fiscal Policy

Virtual: Tax Policy and Administration: Theory and Practice (TPAT)

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Session No.: AT 21.37V

Location: Ebene, Mauritius

Date: November 8-19, 2021 (2 weeks)

Delivery Method: Virtual Training

Primary Language: English

Interpretation Language: French

    Target Audience

    Senior officials from ministries of finance and tax administrations whose responsibilities include advising ministers on tax policy issues or managing tax administration. Their duties are likely to include policy analysis and evaluation; drafting policy proposals; drafting tax laws; and managing organizational issues, strategic planning, information technology, and other major operational functions in tax administration.
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    Qualifications

    Participants involved in policy areas are expected to have a degree in economics, law, or a related field, experience in producing analytical reports, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Participants involved in tax administration areas are expected to be senior managers from the top two levels of their agency.
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    Course Description

    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 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 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 issues for major taxes that form modern tax systems (e.g., broad-based consumption and income taxes, property taxes, excises, natural-resource taxation, and small business tax regimes) and discusses approaches to tax policymaking in specific economic and institutional settings, such as resource-rich countries and countries in economic blocs/customs unions; 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. 
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    Course Objectives

    Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:  Summarize key tax policy design principles and their implications for tax administrations, such as how to link tax policy and tax administration; how  functions feed into one another; and how design principles may differ in different economic settings, perhaps comparing resource-rich countries with other countries.  Identify the core elements of the major taxes in modern tax systems, such as broad-based consumption and income taxes, property taxes, or small business tax regimes. Recognize the impact and consequences of specific policies usually in place in some countries (reduced rates, exemptions, tax incentives, delay in refund tax credits such as those of the VAT, restriction to input tax deductions in the VAT or expenses in the CIT, etc.) Identify the main problems affecting international taxation and the tools to reduce them (transfer pricing regulations, exchange of information among countries, etc.) Describe and analyze the organization and core functions of modern tax administrations, and the key challenges and approaches to managing tax compliance. Summarize common barriers and approaches to tax system reform, including the formulation of a Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (MTRS). Explain new tools for the assessment and analyses of a tax system, including the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT), Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP), Tax Expenditure Assessment Tool, International Survey on Revenue Administration (ISORA), etc.   
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