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  "title": "RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model (VGAPx)",
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  "summary": "RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model Training Program Target Audience Officials in ministries of finance and revenue administrations involved in tax gap and revenue performance analysis.",
  "publishDate": "2025-02-10",
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      "heading": "Training program and session details",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 23.162\n- Deadline passed\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Presented by: Fiscal Affairs Department"
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Officials in ministries of finance and revenue administrations involved in tax gap and revenue performance analysis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Strong familiarity with government finances, value-added tax (VAT) design, and at least an intermediate level of familiarity with national accounts.\n- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection with a Google Chrome web browser."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Purpose: Provides instruction on how to prepare and execute VAT gap estimation model (VGEM) of the IMF’s Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP).\n- Structure: The course is broken into five modules covering:\n  - an overview of the VAT gap modeling framework;\n  - using the VAT gap estimation model;\n  - measuring actual VAT;\n  - constructing the potential VAT base;\n  - running the model, interpreting the results, and troubleshooting."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Prepare the data inputs for VGEM.\n- Produce and interpret the results from VGEM.\n- Diagnose and correct for errors that might be effecting the results."
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    "Deadline passed",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Presented by: Fiscal Affairs Department",
    "Officials in ministries of finance and revenue administrations involved in tax gap and revenue performance analysis.",
    "Strong familiarity with government finances, value-added tax (VAT) design, and at least an intermediate level of familiarity with national accounts.",
    "Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection with a Google Chrome web browser.",
    "Purpose: Provides instruction on how to prepare and execute VAT gap estimation model (VGEM) of the IMF’s Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP).",
    "Structure: The course is broken into five modules covering:",
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    "Produce and interpret the results from VGEM.",
    "Diagnose and correct for errors that might be effecting the results."
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