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  "title": "Virtual Training to Advance Revenue Administration (VITARA) Reference Guide: Strategic Management",
  "publication": "Manuals & Guides, March 14, 2023",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- This book is the first in a series of Virtual Training to Advance Revenue Administration (VITARA) reference guides developed based on the contents of the VITARA online modules.\n- Focus: how a tax administration can benefit from the application of strategic management — the process of setting long–term objectives, implementing initiatives to achieve them, and measuring their success.\n- Strategic management is described as a critical planning, communication, and management discipline.\n- A strategically managed tax administration is forward looking and is equipped to respond to challenges arising from a continually changing external environment.\n- The guide is divided into five chapters highlighting key concepts, processes, and good practices relating to the strategic management of a tax administration."
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      "heading": "Key findings and emphases",
      "content": "- Strategic management enables tax administrations to set long–term objectives, implement initiatives, and measure outcomes.\n- Emphasis on planning, communication, and management disciplines as central to effective tax administration.\n- Forward-looking strategic management helps tax administrations respond to continuously changing external environments.\n- The guide presents key concepts, processes, and good practices applicable to strategic management in tax administrations."
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      "heading": "Subject areas and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Asset and liability management; Economic and financial statistics; Large taxpayer office; Medium term revenue strategy; Revenue administration; Revenue performance assessment; Tax administration core functions\n- Keywords: administration's objective; compliance risk; Global; governance framework; Large taxpayer office; management of the administration; Medium term revenue strategy; tax administration revenue administration strategic planning strategic plan strategy strategic management strategy implementation domestic revenue mobilization medium-term revenue strategy; Tax administration core functions; tax administration objective\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/manuals-guides/issues/2023/03/14/virtual-training-to-advance-revenue-administration-vitara-reference-guide-strategic-525163"
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    "Published: March 14, 2023",
    "Series: Manuals & Guides",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400223488.069",
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    "Emphasis on planning, communication, and management disciplines as central to effective tax administration.",
    "Forward-looking strategic management helps tax administrations respond to continuously changing external environments.",
    "The guide presents key concepts, processes, and good practices applicable to strategic management in tax administrations.",
    "Subject: Asset and liability management; Economic and financial statistics; Large taxpayer office; Medium term revenue strategy; Revenue administration; Revenue performance assessment; Tax administration core functions",
    "Keywords: administration's objective; compliance risk; Global; governance framework; Large taxpayer office; management of the administration; Medium term revenue strategy; tax administration revenue administration strategic planning strategic plan strategy strategic management strategy implementation domestic revenue mobilization medium-term revenue strategy; Tax administration core functions; tax administration objective"
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