Designing a Tax Administration Reform Strategy: Experiences and Guidelines

March 1, 1997

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Katherine Baer, and Carlos Silvani. Designing a Tax Administration Reform Strategy: Experiences and Guidelines, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

Building on previous FAD work in the tax administration field, this paper defines broad criteria for diagnosing the problems in a country’s tax administration and formulating an appropriate reform strategy. To be effective, this strategy should be based on the size of the tax gap and the country’s particular circumstances. This paper discusses some guiding principles which have provided the basis for successful reforms, including: reducing the tax system’s complexity, encouraging taxpayers’ voluntary compliance, differentiating the treatment of taxpayers by their revenue potential, and ensuring the reform’s effective management. Also discussed are specific bottlenecks that hinder the effectiveness of the tax administration’s operations.

Subject: Auditing, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration, Tax administration core functions, Tax collection, Taxes, Taxpayer services, Value-added tax

Keywords: Audit program, Auditing, Enforcement action, Global, Information systems operation, Paper workload, Personnel policy, Reform effort, Reform measure, Reform process, Reform project, Reform strategy, Tax administration, Tax administration core functions, Tax administrator, Tax collection, Taxpayer services, Value-added tax, Western Europe, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

36
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Working Paper No. 1997/030
Stock No:

WPIEA0301997
ISBN:

9781451980394
ISSN:

1018-5941

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