Masterclass in Tax Administration

Overview:

Introduction

The application helps people manage their taxes legally and as effectively and efficiently as possible. It delves into the complexities of deciding what taxes to impose, how much to collect, and who would be subject to paying them. This program will incorporate analyzing these models in order to comprehend their advantages and potential areas for improvement. Many tax administrations are creating procedures to deliver tax compliance risk management using a framework.This course focuses on ensuring adoption success with the aid of pertinent policies that must be considerate of compliance issues and support long-term growth.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will learn about:

• Take part in engaging group discussions and tax administration case studies.
• Connect with other participants and foreign tax administration professionals
• better control of essential tax processes
• Enhance tax administration-related performance management policies
• Boost cross-sector and international tax administrator cooperation.
• Streamline fundamental tax administration processes' management
• contribute to the primary goals of the agenda for tax administration reform
• Implement cost-effective methods based on current notions of taxpayer segmentation, self-assessment, and sound organization and management
• Utilizing the right technologies, ensure function-based operations, lower taxpayer compliance costs, and boost tax system integrity

Targeted Audience

• Tax advisors
• Tax consultants
• Legal advice and attorneys
• Tax consultants
• Experts in general taxation
• Tax experts working for advising firms
• Government employees
• Internal tax managers or directors
• Tax enforcement agencies

Course Outline

Unit 1: TAX LAWS AND REGULATIONS

• Tax classifications
• Process of Tax Payment Registration
• Mandatory Returns and the Procedures for Filing Them
• Relationship Administration

Unit 2: STATE BOARD OF INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 

• Government Internal Revenue Service
• Mutual Tax Board
• Boards' Technical Committees
• Tribunal for Tax Appeal
• Administration of Tax Clearance Certificates

Unit 3:EXEMPTIONS AND RELIEFS

• Multiple (Vexatious) Taxes

• Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion.

Unit 4:CORPORATE TAX ISSUES AND COMPUTATIONS

• Company Income Tax

  • Limited liability business
  • Partnership

Unit 5:VALUE ADDED TAX AND STAMP DUTIES

• Education Tax
• Types of Assessment
  • Self-Assessment Scheme
  • Provisional Assessment
  • Best of Judgment Assessment

Unit6: RELEVANT DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTATION PROCEDURES 

• Return filing requirements and timing

• Treatments of Withholding Taxes
• Penalties for violations

Unit7: TAX ISSUES CONCERNING INDIVIDUALS

• Taxable Persons
• Personal Income Tax
  • Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax computations
  • Direct assessment of individuals
  • Capital Gain Tax
  • Property and investment income tax.

Unit 8: EXPATRIATES PERSONAL INCOME TAX

• Relevant Documents and Documentation Procedures
• Exemptions and Reliefs
• Penalties for Infringements

Unit 9: THE TAX ADMINISTRATOR'S POSITION AS ADVOCATE IN THE POLITICAL SPHERE.

• Context of Operation
• Organisational Design
• Organisational Structure

Unit 10: MANAGEMENT MACRO-PROCESSES: HELP FOR THE TAXPAYER

• Management macro-processes: Collection
• Management macro-processes: Recover
• Management macro-processes: Control
• Macro-processes of Management: Tax Calculation

Unit 11:STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IS ONE OF THE SUPPORT PROCESSES

• Supporting Procedures: Administration and Human Resource Development
• Processes of Support: Information Management
• additional management-support techniques
• import duties on goods
• Taxes on services rendered abroad
• fines for mistakes and omissions
• Refunds, payments, and additional fees
• Assessments, appeals, and authority powers
• International tax administration realities and difficulties