1. Enhancing Engagement with ATAF
29 January 2019

2. TAX PROGRAMMES – OVERVIEW
RESEARCH - OVERVIEW
CHALLENGES IN ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN ATAF AND MEMBERS
GUIDING QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS FOR PANELISTS
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3. TP EOI VAT ML Tax Programmes Overview - Resource Mobilisation
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
Carry out 9 EOI interventions and organise two Technical committee meetings
Organise Competent authority meeting
Evaluation of AEOI Country Programme in Uganda and Cameroon.
Review of delivery approach
TRANSFER PRICING
ATAF will conduct 17 Transfer Pricing interventions in 16 member countries countries in the course of 2019.
Strengthening of CBT programe
MULTILATERAL
Continue engagement with OECD
World Economic Forum for Africa
Engaging with other stake holders to fight IFFs.
VALUE ADDED TAXES
Organise 4th as well as 5th meeting of VAT Technical committee focusing on construction, ecommerce… Technical Workshop on VAT in eCommerce.
Participation in the future work of OECD Global Forum on VAT and Tax force on digital Economy TP
EOI
VAT ML
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4. Tax Programme Over view- Training
BLENDED LEARNING
Online, Intermediate & Advanced training Course on Tax Audit
Intermediate Seminar on Tax Audit (FIRS)
Online & Intermediate training Course on Transfer Pricing
WORKSHOPS
ATAF/OECD Workshop on MLI
Revision of ATAF’s Model DTA
ATAF/OECD Workshop on TP Risk
Assessment
Integrity Assurance Workshop
SHORT COURSES
Short Course on VAT Fraud
Short Course on Revenue Forecasting
BUILDING AFRICAN EXPERTS FOR SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES
Train-the-Trainer on EOI.
AfDB PROJECTS
Media engagement workshop
Parliamentarians training
Corporate Taxpayer Engagement
Workshop on Taxpayer Education
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Accreditation of programmes
Remuneration of home grown experts
Regionalisation Strategy
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5. Technical Assistance/Country Programme
Technical Assistance is mainly demand driven and the department will continue with previous country programme and work with member countries to identify new area of cooperation. Technical assistance is delivered through; scooping Missions, audit support, drafting of new legislation….
Achievements of Technical Assistance
Increased revenue assessment and collection in a number of ATAF member countries.
Total tax assessment so far as a result of technical assistance by ATAF in a number of member countries is now totalling one billion.
Actual figure of tax collected is 236 millions USD
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6. ATO EMT Research Overview Research ATRN *Inhouse and Collaborative
Revenue
Statistics
ATRN
EMT
Research
*Inhouse and
Collaborative
*ATEC
*TAL
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7. ATRN EMT ATO ATAF Services under Research Tax and Development EMT
Upskilling through higher education of TA middle-management
Capacity Building in Tax Research
Impact within TA through Transfer Project = identification of practical solutions to a real problem identified within the TA
Cross border knowledge sharing
EMT-F: 100 % African programme
Feb 2019: Curriculum Development Workshop hosted in Madagascar, Existing EMT and alumni
Draft EMT Handbook, input required from TA’s
ATRN
EMT
ATO
Tax and Development
Tax and Development Short Course
Aimed at a broad, non-technical audience of practitioners and policymakers, mainly the civil society and the donor community
Understanding of the main issues on tax revenue mobilization in Africa
Links between tax, governance, accountability, state building and development
May 2019, Nairobi, Kenya
Advert has been placed for participation
Recruiting of Trainers
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8. EMT ATO ATRN ATAF Services under Research Research *Inhouse and
Online data portal operational that facilitates tax statistics collection within Tax administrations
ATO Guidebook
Drafted by Tax admin. economists and researchers
Offers: Tax data analysis for TAs, with trends, good practices and benchmarking
For policymakers, Heads of tax administrations, tax officials, academia, practitioners, business and CSOs
Drafting team currently being put together for 2019 Edition
ATRN
Capacity Building of African tax researchers
Making research easily accessible
Networking, peer-learning and collaborative research through the ATRN Annual Congress
Dissemination of TA research through multiple international platforms: ATRN Working Paper Series/Policy Briefs, ATAF Compendium of good practices and the African Multidisciplinary Tax Journal
2019 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Registration open February 2019
ATRN
EMT
ATO
Research
*Inhouse and
Collaborative
*ATEC
*TAL
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9. Challenges in Engagement between ATAF and Members
Transfer Pricing - Increase in interest of country programmes (Resources)
Work on Digital Taxation will require significant analysis and skills to develop ATAF position on VAT Treatment of e-commerce trade
Need for more experts to convey TA in Francophone and Lusophone countries
Fast tracking responses - Streamlining TA responses and following up members to engage their needs more efficiently and effectively.
Too few visits to ATAF website (i.e. update of ATAF activities)
Delayed projects due to lack of responses by focal points.
Slow administrative process (e.g. travel authorisation and visa application) which prevents attendance to ATAF events
Synchronise ATAF Calendar of activities with tax administrations financial periods
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10. Enhanced Engagements between ATAF and Member Countries
Guiding Questions and Statements for Panelists:
How do you rate ATAF’s current engagements/interventions
How can ATAF better assist you as a Member? Please propose mechanisms that can be implemented.
Are there specific needs your Administration has?
How can you help to ensure your needs and requirements are shared with ATAF?
What role do you play, as a Country Correspondent, in ensuring that engagements with ATAF are maintained and streamlined?
More use of ATAF websites?
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11. THANK YOU
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