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  "title": "Revenue Administration Gap Analysis",
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  "summary": "Back to top Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Invitation Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-08-29",
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    {
      "heading": "Invitation and Logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 25.29\n- Location: Andhra Pradesh, India\n- Date: July 7-11, 2025 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience: Officials currently or potentially responsible for tax gap estimation or risk management, with experience in the collection, analysis, or use of revenue administration data.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should have experience in a revenue authority, and in the collection, analysis, or use of revenue administration data.\n  - Desirable background: knowledge of the tax policy structure, tax administration practices, national accounts statistics and micro-data available in the tax administration databases."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Purpose:\n  - Provide tax administrators and stakeholders with measures of the amount of tax revenues lost due to taxpayer non-compliance and avoidance, and the impact of government tax policy choices.\n  - Assist countries to improve capacity to estimate and analyze tax gaps, and to understand drivers of tax gap changes and trends.\n- Program (RA-GAP) focus:\n  - Improve countries' capacity to estimate and analyze tax gaps.\n  - Provide understanding of drivers of tax gap changes and trends.\n- Teaching approach:\n  - Curriculum combining methodology, international good practices, and practical guidance.\n  - Interactive work sessions to promote discussions and exchange of experiences within the context of tax administration realities."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Curriculum and Core Components",
      "content": "- The course will offer a curriculum that includes:\n  - (i) A thorough introduction to the methodology, development, and international good practices of tax gap analysis.\n  - (ii) Guidance on the Value Added Tax (VAT), gap estimation methods.\n  - (iii) Strategies for building capacity in tax gap estimation.\n  - (iv) Insights into how tax gap estimation can be integrated with tax compliance management."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Enhance participants' understanding of tax gap estimation for Value Added Tax (VAT).\n- Present the pros and cons of various estimation methodologies, encouraging a critical discussion on identifying the most effective approach.\n- Formulate strategies to augment capacity development in tax gap estimation, tailored to local conditions.\n- Outline the services offered by the RA-GAP team and explore potential avenues for future collaboration in tax gap estimation and revenue performance analysis."
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    "Location: Andhra Pradesh, India",
    "Date: July 7-11, 2025 (1 week)",
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    "Target Audience: Officials currently or potentially responsible for tax gap estimation or risk management, with experience in the collection, analysis, or use of revenue administration data.",
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    "Program (RA-GAP) focus:",
    "Teaching approach:",
    "The course will offer a curriculum that includes:",
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    "Present the pros and cons of various estimation methodologies, encouraging a critical discussion on identifying the most effective approach.",
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    "Outline the services offered by the RA-GAP team and explore potential avenues for future collaboration in tax gap estimation and revenue performance analysis."
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