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  "title": "Understanding Revenue Administration: An Initial Data Analysis Using the Revenue Administration Fiscal Information Tool",
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  "summary": "During the past few years, the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) has developed the Revenue Administration Fiscal Information Tool (RA-FIT), a tax and customs data gathering initiative.",
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      "content": "- Paper analyzes results of the first round of RA-FIT data for 85 countries.\n- RA-FIT (Revenue Administration Fiscal Information Tool) is a tax and customs data gathering initiative developed by the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD).\n- Purpose: begin making summarized cross-country information available to revenue administrations, particularly in developing economies, to help them improve their performance.\n- Topics covered: performance measurement, institutional arrangements, and core operations of tax and customs administration.\n- RA-FIT status: in its second round of data gathering, now via an online portal; these data will be analyzed and in future made available to participating countries and technical assistance partners/donors through an online dissemination platform."
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      "heading": "Findings and analysis themes",
      "content": "- Performance measurement:\n  - Cross-country summarized information intended to support performance assessment of revenue administrations.\n- Institutional arrangements:\n  - Analysis includes institutional arrangements for revenue administration across covered countries.\n- Core operations:\n  - Tax and customs administration core functions and operations are analyzed using RA-FIT data."
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      "content": "- Capacity building:\n  - Summarized cross-country information aims to help revenue administrations, in particular in developing economies, improve their performance.\n- Data dissemination:\n  - Second-round RA-FIT data will be analyzed and made available to participating countries and technical assistance partners/donors through an online dissemination platform.\n\nDepartmental Papers 2015, 006 (2015); accessed 9/16/2026\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- fad1501\n  - fad1501 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - fad1501 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/departmental-papers-policy-papers/issues/2016/12/31/understanding-revenue-administration-an-initial-data-analysis-using-the-revenue-42951"
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    "Authors: Andrea Lemgruber, Andrew R Masters, Duncan Cleary",
    "Published: May 20, 2015",
    "Series: Departmental Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513584829.087",
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