
Analytical and Learning Resources
IMF's analytical tools and data as well as country-specific reports, conferences and other events, and online learning programs in the revenue domain.
The IMF has developed analytical tools and survey instruments that are used to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of countries’ revenue administration and tax policy. The results can be used to set strategic priorities, design interventions, and allocate scarce resources to support targeted and balanced development. The IMF has also developed online learning programs that help government officials in designing, administering, and modernizing their tax system. The country-specific reports are the results of IMF CD missions, various consultations, and other engagements with member countries in the revenue field.
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Analytical Tools and Data
This section contains analytical tools and data sources providing useful insights into tax policy and tax and customs administration issues.
Among the analytical tools are ISORA and ISOCA which contain data on tax and customs administrations—allowing comparative cross-country analysis of revenue administration operations, performance, and other characteristics. RA-GAP facilitates tax gap analysis. FARI enables the evaluation and analysis of fiscal regimes for the extractive industries. WoRLD is a compilation of government tax and non-tax revenues whereas the TPRD is a novel and comprehensive database of tax policy measures.
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Technical Note
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Model
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Data
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Diagnostic Assessment Tool
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Country-Specific Reports
This section includes a selection of documents highlighting the country specific capacity development work of the IMF as well as experiences of individual countries in domestic revenue mobilization.
Sharing experience and information through country reports facilitates international and peer-group comparisons and is often useful in providing an indication of key issues as well as how achievable specific development targets are, and over what timescale.
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Working Paper
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Cambodia: Technical Assistance Report-Training in Investigation Techniques
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Iraq: General Commission for Taxes: Strategic Direction for Prioritized Reforms
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Country report
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Sri Lanka: Technical Assistance Report-Governance Diagnostic Assessment
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Country report
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Country report
Albania: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2022 Article IV Mission
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Country report
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Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) : Selected Issues
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Selected Issues
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Selected Issues Paper
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Country Report
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Maldives: Technical Assistance Report-Modernizing the Goods and Services Tax
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Country report
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Niger : First Review under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement-Press Release and Staff Report
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Country report
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Kingdom of the Netherlands Aruba: Toward a Sustainable Tax System
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Chile : Technical Assistance Report—Assessment of Tax Expenditures and Corrective Taxes
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Country report
Chile: Technical Assistance Report-An Evaluation of Improved Tax Options
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Country report
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Lebanon: Technical Assistance Report on Putting Tax Policy Back on Track
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Maldives: Technical Assistance Report—Estimating Tax Expenditures
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Country report
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Republic of Moldova: Technical Assistance Report - Performance Assessment Report
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Country report
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Romania:Technical Assistance Report on Reforming Personal Income Taxation
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Kingdom of the Netherlands—Sint Maarten: Technical Assistance Report—Sustainable Tax Reforms
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Uganda : Technical Assistance Report-Fiscal Regimes for Extractive Industries: Next Phase (NEED URL)
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Conferences and Seminars
A schedule of IMF conferences, seminars, and workshops allowing government officials with interest in fiscal issues to follow the live or on-demand version of these events.
A selection of past and upcoming, live and virtual IMF conferences, seminars, workshops, and similar events in the revenue domain providing details on the title, date, and location of the events as well as the topics covered, and the presenters involved.
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Conferences and Seminars
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Conferences and Seminars
Analytical Corner: Building Tax Capacity in Developing Countries
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Conferences and Seminars
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Online Learning
As part of its capacity development toolbox, the IMF offers multiple, highly effective online courses both for tax policy as well as revenue administration professionals.
The IMF online course portfolio in the revenue space allows government officials to gain or broaden their knowledge in relevant areas such as management and governance of tax administrations, tax gap and revenue performance analysis, the design, administration, and monitoring of a tax system, revenue forecasting, as well as fiscal policy and its macroeconomic implications.
- IMF Videos - Welcome to VITARA
- VITARA - Performance Management
- VITARA - Enterprise Risk Management
- VITARA - Compliance Risk Management
- VITARA - Audit Program
- VITARA - Strategic Management
- RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model-English
- RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model- Spanish
- RA-GAP VAT Gap Estimation Model- French
- Revenue Forecasting and Analysis- English
- Revenue Forecasting and Analysis- Spanish
- Revenue Forecasting and Analysis- French
- VITARA - Organization - English
- VITARA - Organization - Arabic
- VITARA - Human Resource Management
- VITARA - Compliance Risk Management - Spanish
- VITARA - Compliance Risk Management - French
- VITARA - Strategic Management- Spanish
- VITARA - Strategic Management - French
- VITARA - Reform Management Fundamentals- English
- VITARA - Reform Management Fundamentals- Spanish
- VITARA - Reform Management Fundamentals - French
- VITARA - Reform Management Specific Topics - English
- VITARA - Reform Management Specific Topics - French
- VITARA - Reform Management Specific Topics - Spanish
- VITARA - Institutional Governance
- VITARA - Information Technology and Data Management
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