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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": "2025-09-04",
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      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Event: Revenue Forecasting and Analysis (RFAx), Session No.: OL 25.203.\n- Status: Deadline passed.\n- Location: Course conducted online.\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks).\n- Delivery Method: Online Training.\n- Primary Language: French.\n- Provider: Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.\n- 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and participant requirements",
      "content": "- Academic/background expectations:\n  - Degree in economics or tax accountancy (ideally with some background in econometrics).\n  - Basic to intermediate understanding of tax policy.\n- Technical requirements:\n  - Proficient in Microsoft Excel.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and methodology",
      "content": "- Focus:\n  - Technical and institutional aspects of revenue forecasting and tax policy analysis.\n  - Overview of quantitative methods required to forecast and evaluate revenue implications of changes in major taxes.\n- Taxes covered:\n  - Personal income taxes.\n  - Corporate income taxes.\n  - Value added taxes.\n  - Excise taxes.\n  - International trade taxes.\n- Institutional emphasis:\n  - Necessity of establishing a strong institutional framework to support the revenue forecasting process.\n- Teaching approach:\n  - Builds on both conceptual and practical approaches.\n  - Employs hands-on activities to support learning, including quizzes and quantitative exercises with real fiscal data."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and learning outcomes",
      "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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    "Status: Deadline passed.",
    "Location: Course conducted online.",
    "Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks).",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training.",
    "Primary Language: French.",
    "Provider: Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.",
    "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.",
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    "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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