Strengthening Revenue Administration for Gender Equality
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Bibliographic details
- Session: SA 24.47
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Dates: December 9-11, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience and qualifications
- No formal qualifications are necessary, but ideally participants would have experience in a revenue administration.
- Target Audience:
- Senior managers with at least 5 years' experience in the development and implementation of one of the following:
- HR employment policies
- Taxpayer Service programs
- Compliance risk treatment strategies
- It would be desirable that each administration nominate:
- 1 senior HR manager
- 1 senior official with responsibility for either taxpayer services or compliance risk management
Course description — scope and topics
- Purpose: Designed for senior officials, managers and executives from developing country tax administrations who would like a high-level understanding of how their organization may successfully administer gender-sensitive tax laws to optimize societal and economic outcomes of the revenue system.
- Core thematic areas:
- What gender equality is and why it is important to RA.
- Connecting gender equality and RA.
- Building a gender-balanced and inclusive RA workforce: integrating gender equality aspects into the design and implementation of Human Resource (HR) internal policies and practices regarding people.
- Gendered taxes: the interaction of tax policy with gender equality and the role of the RA in addressing gender inequality in tax policy outcomes.
- Administering gender sensitive tax laws: understanding barriers restricting women's economic participation in the tax system, compliance and enforcement biases in tax administration; building partnerships with women's groups, and other government departments.
- Learning methods:
- Case studies demonstrating how gender disaggregated data can be used to:
- establish baselines and measure progress in building a gender balanced workforce
- identify women's participation in economic sectors to target areas where women taxpayers' compliance may require support
- Sharing international best practice, a wide range of tools, approaches, and decision-making considerations
- Participants' working groups conducting deep dives on high-impact topics
- Guided development of action plans to implement learning
Course objectives and expected participant outcomes
- Immediate objectives: increase participants' understanding of the principles of gender equality, its importance in revenue administration and actionable steps to promote gender equality in RA employment and taxpayer compliance.
- Upon completion participants will be able to:
- Understand the importance of gender equality in supporting societal and economic outcomes.
- Make the connection between gender and revenue administration.
- Understand the interaction of tax policy with gender equality and how to identify gendered outcomes.
- Understand what HR policies and practices best support improved gender equality in employment.
- Use gender disaggregated HR data to develop baselines for strategies and to measure progress in building a gender balanced workforce.
- Develop a high-level action plan for a gender-balanced and inclusive workforce.
- Use external and RA-sourced data to identify barriers restricting women's participation in the tax system and those economic sectors where women taxpayers may be concentrated to design strategies to support their compliance.
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