## Virtual Training to Advance Revenue Administration (VITARA) Reference Guide: Strategic Management

_Manuals & Guides, March 14, 2023_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 14, 2023
- Series: Manuals & Guides
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400223488.069

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### Summary
- 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.
- 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.
- Strategic management is described as a critical planning, communication, and management discipline.
- A strategically managed tax administration is forward looking and is equipped to respond to challenges arising from a continually changing external environment.
- The guide is divided into five chapters highlighting key concepts, processes, and good practices relating to the strategic management of a tax administration.

### Key findings and emphases
- Strategic management enables tax administrations to set long–term objectives, implement initiatives, and measure outcomes.
- 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 areas and keywords
- 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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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/manuals-guides/issues/2023/03/14/virtual-training-to-advance-revenue-administration-vitara-reference-guide-strategic-525163_