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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": "2024-05-29",
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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": "Schedule and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 23.163\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Deadline status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Expected background:\n  - Strong familiarity with government finances\n  - Familiarity with value-added tax (VAT) design\n  - At least an intermediate level of familiarity with national accounts\n- Technical skills and equipment:\n  - Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection with a Google Chrome web browser"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and structure",
      "content": "- Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.\n- 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- Course 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 (learning outcomes)",
      "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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    "Session No.: OL 23.163",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Deadline status: Deadline passed",
    "Expected background:",
    "Technical skills and equipment:",
    "Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.",
    "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).",
    "Course broken into five modules covering:",
    "Prepare the data inputs for VGEM.",
    "Produce and interpret the results from VGEM.",
    "Diagnose and correct for errors that might be effecting the results."
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