1. 2018 ATAF Highlights

2. ATAF’s Strategic Objectives
Developing a sustainable, member-orientated African organisation on tax matters
Fostering efficient and effective African tax administrations
Driving the knowledge hub on African tax matters
Informing and influencing the regional and global dialogue as the African voice in the field of taxation
How have we enabled ATAF achieve its Strategic Objectives?

3. Advance the role of taxation in African governance and state building
ATAF:Mandate
Improve the capacity of African tax administrations to achieve their revenue objectives
Advance the role of taxation in African governance and state building
Provide a voice for African countries on regional and global platforms and influence the international tax debate
Produce and disseminate knowledge on tax matters to inform policy and legislation formulation, foster transparency and accountability and improve revenue collection
Develop and support partnerships between African countries and development partners.
How have CC enabled ATAF achieve its mandate ?
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4. ATAF’s Key areas of work
1. Training of tax officials
2. Providing Technical Assistance on specific reform projects for its members, institutional development,
3. Representing an African Voice in the international tax arena
4. Providing a research platform to assess and respond to the needs of African tax administrations.
What role did they play in ensuring that all goes well
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5. 2018 Highlights: Trainings
11 training and 422 participants from TA
Audit Training;
Online training course on tax audit: 19th February to 4th May 2018.
Intermediate seminar on tax audit :, 23 – 27 July 2018 in Tanzania
Advanced Course on Tax Audit:30 July to 3 August 2018 in Tanzania
Tax treaties
Advance course on tax treaties:4th – 8th June 2018 in Zimbabwe .
Tax Treaties Mentorship Programme :15 – 19 October 2018
Transfer Pricing Legislation and Transfer Pricing Risk Assessment -29th October to 2 November 2019 in South Africa.
Compliance risk management and fraud detection: November 2018 in Uganda.
Revenue Forecasting and Analysis (Eng & Fr); 23th – 27th April 2018 in Rwanda.
Tax & Development : 28th – 31st May 2018 in Kenya
ATRN-related Capacity Building: 09 – 12 April 2018 in Tanzania.
2nd Cohort of Executive master’s in taxation (Francophone) programme: 3 to 4 December 2018 in Senegal, with 15 graduates
Train the trainer on TP (English and French) in South Africa
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6. 2018 Highlights: Technical assistance programs
3 New legislation was enacted in 2018
1.01 Billion USD has been assessed
236.5 million USD has been collected
Implementation of EOI-Units and AEOI-
Country programme: 18 cross-border taxation country programmes in 12 countries. The countries are Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
8 Exchange of Information (EOI) :Angola, Botswana, Cameroon , Rwanda, Namibia, Togo , Uganda Zambia
3 TADATs in Nigeria ( March 2018), Burundi ( May 2018) and Angola (September 2018),
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7. Tax dialogues: Workshops and conferences
General Assembly-; October 2018 in Bostwana-200 officials from Ministries of Finance and Tax Administrations of 30 African Countries,
Annual continental dialogue with Ministries, Administrations and Parliaments (Nexus): 31 July 2018 in Rwanda- 120 officials from Ministries of Finance and African tax administrations of 21 countries
3rd African Tax Research Network (ATRN) Annual Congress: took place in September 2018 in Morocco . The 118 participants attended from 31 countries- 27 African countries
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8. Tax dialogues: Workshops and conferences
Media engagement and training: March in South: 70 media personalities from 26 countries,
Parliamentarian training and engagement: September 2018 in Kenya- 45 Parliamentarians from 22 countries attended
Corporate taxpayer engagement: 5 – 6 December 2018 in Seychelles- 29 participants attended from 9 countries.
Consultative workshops on taxpayer education :3-4 December 2018 in Seychelles- 35 Participants from 14 countries
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9. 2018 Highlights: Research papers and policies
Taxation guidelines and standards;
The beneficial ownership concept
The Suggested Approach to Drafting Transfer Pricing Practice Notes
The Suggested Approach to Drafting Permanent Establishment Legislation.
Research papers and policies-
lauched the 3rd edition of the Africa Tax Outlook- 31 countries are part of the publication
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10. As CC, What can we improve
2018 challenges
Late confirmation of attendance from Countries: logisticis – availability of accomodation, conference, interpretation service.
Inadequate response from countries. Informing ATAF of the changes in RAs. New CC, CG, acting CG.
Communication channels. Letter from TA, should come through the CG, not the Division.
Attendance without prior notice
Late communication of changes: Number of Delegates attending ATAF events
Limited response on ATAF Survey from TA
Information not passed on time to training or HR departmentents which leads to limited involvements of member countries in ATAF events
Limited awareness of ATAF events which leads to lack of appreciation of the ATAF products
Inadequate impact of ATAF work due to change in staff and/or in tax RA leadership
Difficulty in obtaining political support for the much needed legislative changes
As CC, What can we improve
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11. How can ATAF improve? What did We do better? What was a successful
What can we improve ?
How we can improve?
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