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  "title": "RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model (VGAPx)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/vgapxol25-206",
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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, both central and local governments.",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-22",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Training Program title: RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model\n- Session No.: OL 25.206\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Spanish\n- Presented by: Fiscal Affairs Department\n- Program focus: Prepare and execute VAT gap estimation model (VGEM) of the IMF’s Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Officials in ministries of finance and revenue administrations, involved in tax gap and revenue performance analysis, both central and local governments."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and technical prerequisites",
      "content": "- Strong familiarity with government finances.\n- Strong familiarity with value-added tax (VAT) design.\n- 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 structure and content",
      "content": "- 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 the 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 25.206",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: Spanish",
    "Presented by: Fiscal Affairs Department",
    "Program focus: Prepare and execute VAT gap estimation model (VGEM) of the IMF’s Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP)",
    "Officials in ministries of finance and revenue administrations, involved in tax gap and revenue performance analysis, both central and local governments.",
    "Strong familiarity with government finances.",
    "Strong familiarity with value-added tax (VAT) design.",
    "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.",
    "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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