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  "title": "Lebanon: Tax and Customs Administration: An Urgent Need for Intervention",
  "publication": "High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports, December 5, 2023",
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      "content": "- Provides an overview of guidance to Lebanon’s Ministry of Finance, its VAT and Revenue Directorates, and the Lebanese Customs Administration.\n- Builds on prior IMF advice and conveys an urgent need for intervention to address:\n  - loss of staff; and\n  - a risk of failure with key IT operations in the respective agencies.\n- Notes that an accompanying technical assistance report provides confirmation of broader reform and capacity development priorities for the next 36 months."
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      "content": "- Urgent intervention is required across tax and customs agencies to prevent operational collapse.\n- Two immediate operational risks identified:\n  - Significant loss of staff undermining institutional capacity.\n  - Risk of failure of key IT operations critical to agency functions.\n- The accompanying technical assistance report validates and prioritizes reform and capacity development needs over a 36-month horizon."
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      "content": "- Targeted agencies:\n  - Lebanon’s Ministry of Finance.\n  - VAT Directorate.\n  - Revenue Directorate.\n  - Lebanese Customs Administration.\n- Scope: operational stabilization, IT continuity, staff retention and capacity development, and broader reform sequencing over the next 36 months.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Hlsea202320\n  - Hlsea202320 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Hlsea202320 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/high-level-summary-technical-assistance-reports/issues/2023/12/05/lebanon-tax-and-customs-administration-an-urgent-need-for-intervention-542028"
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    "Authors: Joshua Aslett, Frank Van Driessche, Robert Kokoli, John Middleton, Mohammad Al-Said",
    "Published: December 5, 2023",
    "Series: High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports",
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