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  "title": "Asian Tax Officials Learn How to Strengthen Tax Administration Under New Partnership",
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  "summary": "The four-day training workshop was co-organized by the academy and the Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department and Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP) for the first time.",
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          "text": "Press Officer: Yuko Maeda"
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      "heading": "Workshop overview",
      "content": "- Event: four-day training workshop co-organized by the Malaysian Tax Academy, the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, and the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP).\n- Date and location: Dec. 6, 2019, Selangor, Malaysia.\n- Participation:\n  - About 20 senior tax administration officials from 16 countries across Asia and the Pacific attended.\n  - 19 participants learned about the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) through lectures and hands-on activities."
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    {
      "heading": "Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT)",
      "content": "- Purpose and scope:\n  - Provides the international-standard methodology for assessing tax system performance across taxpayer registration data bases, risk management, and timely payment of taxes.\n  - Assists in assessing effective resolution of tax disputes, the efficiency of revenue management, and the accountability and transparency both of tax administrators and taxpayers.\n- Learning format:\n  - Combination of lectures and hands-on activities to apply the TADAT methodology."
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    {
      "heading": "Instructors, peer learning, and knowledge exchange",
      "content": "- Instructors included experts from Australia, Japan, and the IMF.\n- Participants shared knowledge and experience with each other as peers, reinforcing practical learning and cross-jurisdictional exchange."
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      "heading": "Key messages and expected impacts",
      "content": "- OAP Director Chikahisa Sumi emphasized that the IMF stresses capacity building activities that support better economic outcomes and policies.\n  - Quote: “The TADAT, by helping to assess and improve tax administration systems, has a direct link to both since it helps drive more efficient domestic revenue mobilization and bolster funding to underpin public policies that can support more inclusive and sustainable growth.”\n- Participant feedback highlighted applicability and intent to cascade learning:\n  - Quote from Aruna Samantha Kulappuwa Wadu (Sri Lankan tax agency): “We all, and I personally very much, benefitted from this training and I look forward to carrying my new knowledge back to Sri Lanka to share with my colleagues.”"
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      "heading": "Implications for tax administration and policy",
      "content": "- Strengthening tax administration systems through TADAT is positioned to:\n  - Improve domestic revenue mobilization.\n  - Bolster funding for public policies that support more inclusive and sustainable growth.\n- The workshop demonstrated a model for building new training partnerships between national academies and international institutions to increase regional capacity in tax administration."
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