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  "title": "Revenue Forecasting and Analysis",
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  "summary": "Revenue Forecasting and Analysis Training Program Target Audience Government officials working in ministries of finance or in revenue administrations who are charged with conducting revenue forecasts and/or assessing the revenue or distributional impact of tax policy changes.",
  "publishDate": "2024-03-05",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Title: Revenue Forecasting and Analysis (RFAx)\n- Session No.: OL 23.212\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: April 21, 2023 - May 26, 2023 (5 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Organizing unit: Fiscal Affairs Department"
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Government officials working in ministries of finance or in revenue administrations who are charged with conducting revenue forecasts and/or assessing the revenue or distributional impact of tax policy changes.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Basic to intermediate understanding of tax policy.\n  - Expected to have a degree in economics or tax accountancy (ideally with some background in econometrics).\n  - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Focus: Technical and institutional aspects of revenue forecasting and tax policy analysis.\n- Coverage:\n  - Overview of quantitative methods required to forecast and evaluate revenue implications of changes in major taxes: personal income taxes, corporate income taxes, value added taxes, excise taxes, and international trade taxes.\n  - Emphasis on establishing a strong institutional framework to support the revenue forecasting process.\n- Approach:\n  - Builds on both conceptual and practical approaches.\n  - Employs hands-on activities including quizzes and quantitative exercises with real fiscal data."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe the role of revenue forecasting in the budget-making process.\n- Identify good practices relating to the institutional framework that supports the revenue forecasting process.\n- Identify data requirements for each method of revenue forecasting.\n- Apply macro-based models to forecast tax revenue.\n- Apply input-output models and micro-simulation techniques to analyze the revenue and distributional implications from indirect and direct taxes.\n- Recognize the strengths and limitations of different models."
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    "Title: Revenue Forecasting and Analysis (RFAx)",
    "Session No.: OL 23.212",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: April 21, 2023 - May 26, 2023 (5 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Organizing unit: Fiscal Affairs Department",
    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Focus: Technical and institutional aspects of revenue forecasting and tax policy analysis.",
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    "Approach:",
    "Describe the role of revenue forecasting in the budget-making process.",
    "Identify good practices relating to the institutional framework that supports the revenue forecasting process.",
    "Identify data requirements for each method of revenue forecasting.",
    "Apply macro-based models to forecast tax revenue.",
    "Apply input-output models and micro-simulation techniques to analyze the revenue and distributional implications from indirect and direct taxes.",
    "Recognize the strengths and limitations of different models."
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