{
  "title": "Strengthening Revenue Administration for Gender Equality",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2024/ragesa24-47",
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  "summary": "It explores what gender equality is, the interactions between revenue administration (RA) and gender equality and the role of the RA in promoting gender equality for taxpayers.",
  "publishDate": "2025-08-21",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- No formal qualifications are necessary, but ideally participants would have experience in a revenue administration.\n- Target Audience:\n  - Senior managers with at least 5 years' experience in the development and implementation of one of the following:\n    - HR employment policies\n    - Taxpayer Service programs\n    - Compliance risk treatment strategies\n- It would be desirable that each administration nominate:\n  - 1 senior HR manager\n  - 1 senior official with responsibility for either taxpayer services or compliance risk management"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and topics",
      "content": "- Purpose: Designed for senior officials, managers and executives from developing country tax administrations who would like a high-level understanding of how their organization may successfully administer gender-sensitive tax laws to optimize societal and economic outcomes of the revenue system.\n- Core thematic areas:\n  - What gender equality is and why it is important to RA.\n  - Connecting gender equality and RA.\n  - Building a gender-balanced and inclusive RA workforce: integrating gender equality aspects into the design and implementation of Human Resource (HR) internal policies and practices regarding people.\n  - Gendered taxes: the interaction of tax policy with gender equality and the role of the RA in addressing gender inequality in tax policy outcomes.\n  - Administering gender sensitive tax laws: understanding barriers restricting women's economic participation in the tax system, compliance and enforcement biases in tax administration; building partnerships with women's groups, and other government departments.\n- Learning methods:\n  - Case studies demonstrating how gender disaggregated data can be used to:\n    - establish baselines and measure progress in building a gender balanced workforce\n    - identify women's participation in economic sectors to target areas where women taxpayers' compliance may require support\n  - Sharing international best practice, a wide range of tools, approaches, and decision-making considerations\n  - Participants' working groups conducting deep dives on high-impact topics\n  - Guided development of action plans to implement learning"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and expected participant outcomes",
      "content": "- Immediate objectives: increase participants' understanding of the principles of gender equality, its importance in revenue administration and actionable steps to promote gender equality in RA employment and taxpayer compliance.\n- Upon completion participants will be able to:\n  - Understand the importance of gender equality in supporting societal and economic outcomes.\n  - Make the connection between gender and revenue administration.\n  - Understand the interaction of tax policy with gender equality and how to identify gendered outcomes.\n  - Understand what HR policies and practices best support improved gender equality in employment.\n  - Use gender disaggregated HR data to develop baselines for strategies and to measure progress in building a gender balanced workforce.\n  - Develop a high-level action plan for a gender-balanced and inclusive workforce.\n  - Use external and RA-sourced data to identify barriers restricting women's participation in the tax system and those economic sectors where women taxpayers may be concentrated to design strategies to support their compliance."
    }
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    "No formal qualifications are necessary, but ideally participants would have experience in a revenue administration.",
    "Target Audience:",
    "It would be desirable that each administration nominate:",
    "Purpose: Designed for senior officials, managers and executives from developing country tax administrations who would like a high-level understanding of how their organization may successfully administer gender-sensitive tax laws to optimize societal and economic outcomes of the revenue system.",
    "Core thematic areas:",
    "Learning methods:",
    "Immediate objectives: increase participants' understanding of the principles of gender equality, its importance in revenue administration and actionable steps to promote gender equality in RA employment and taxpayer compliance.",
    "Upon completion participants will be able to:"
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