Taxpayer Registration (TPR)

Source details

Session No.: SA 23.12
Location: New Delhi, India
Date: April 24-28, 2023 (1 week)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Qualifications: No formal qualifications are necessary. However, participants should have at least five years' experience in a tax authority.
Target Audience:
- Managers and senior staff currently working in the Taxpayer registration area or with potential to work in this area in future.
- It is desirable the participants have exposure of working in one or more of the four pillars of compliance: registration, filing, reporting and payment.

Fundamental focus:
- Taxpayer registration and numbering as an initial step in administering taxes.
- Compiling and maintaining a complete database of businesses and individuals required by law to register.
- Registration and numbering underpin filing, assessment, payment, and collection processes.
Core topics:
- Essentials of the registration process and a high-integrity taxpayer register aligned with best international practice.
- Legal requirements of registration and policies to build a taxpayer register with adequate information about registered persons.
- Maintaining accuracy of the registration database.
- Design features of a good practice registration process.
- Use of technology to improve authentication and speed up processes.
- Risk and compliance strategies.
- Use of third-party data to identify unregistered taxpayers.

Primary objective:
- Build capabilities of tax officers to achieve a sustainable high-integrity taxpayer register that serves as the foundation for effective and efficient compliance management.
Expected participant skills and outputs:
- Ability to build and maintain a sustainable high-integrity register with high quality data.
- Use of the register to promote voluntary compliance and enable effective enforcement action as appropriate.
- Exposure to case studies and group participation to translate learning into practical measures.
- Development of an action plan by participating country teams to take back for consideration and implementation.

Methodology:
- Case studies and group participation.
- Encouragement for country teams to develop actionable plans.
Practical emphasis:
- Application of technology for authentication and process speed.
- Use of third-party data and risk-based compliance strategies to detect unregistered taxpayers.