ATAF’s Tax Academy (ATA) is critical for ATAF to meet is mandate. The ATA offers specialised training programmes for its members through peer-learning and gaining contextual insight via African experts. Collective efforts are considered towards improving participation through constant engagements with Training Managers from revenue Authorities.
The African Tax Administration Forum is pleased to announce the 5th Edition of the ATAF/ATRN Workshop on Methods of Research and Dissemination to take place from 8 to 12 March 2021, Virtually on Zoom.
Exchange of Information (EOI) Eswatini Country Program
Kenya Technical Assistance workshop - Building blocks of a tax administration.
Virtual meeting of ATAF Research Department with Heads of Research and staff in tax administrations.
ATAF, in partnership with the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), is organising the 1st ATAF’s Experts Meeting on Digitalisation and ICT in Tax Administration to take place in South Africa from 6 to 8 November 2019.
The validation workshop aims at convening the Heads of Research and Data Collectors of tax and customs administrations to validate the data collected. These data are collected during the data collection process which takes 4 to 6 months with the support of the ATAF research team.
The workshop will look at topics such as the role of digital platforms in the collection of VAT, the readiness of traditional VAT systems to facilitate a technological revolution and registration of foreign suppliers as VAT vendors.
This Competent Authority meeting will look at the treaty issues in relation to the ATAF Model DTA, the expanding of automatic exchange of information, Voluntary Disclosure Programmes (VDP) prior to the first exchange, to name a few.
The African Tax Administration Forum is pleased to announce that it will hold the 4th Edition of the ATAF/ATRN Workshop on Methods of Research and Dissemination. The workshop designed for junior and mid-career tax researchers in the African continent.
Integrity breach continues to emerge as a major factor in revenue haemorrhage world over in general and in Africa in particular. The need for African tax administrations to take a common approach in addressing the vice, is thus considered crucial. It is estimated that although integrity breaches directly contribute to 5% of Illicit Financial Flows, its impact is even greater as it is cross cutting as both as a criminal activity as well as is observed occurrence in activities of multinational enterprises leading to revenue loss. Its impact if aggregated, could possibly rise to 50% of the said illicit financial flows.
This workshop provides an opportunity to consider in detail proposed changes to the ATAF Model Tax Agreement and the changes in the 2017 edition of the OECD Model Tax Convention and the UN Model Double Taxation Convention, which focus on the allocation of taxing rights between source and residence jurisdictions and addressing tax avoidance. The workshop will discuss the MLI in order to comprehend its implications on their treaty network. This will in turn equip countries to make informed decisions when considering relating to joining the MLI, as countries around the world are currently reviewing and updating their treaty network to address tax avoidance.
As African countries increase their tax treaty networks and African tax administrations increase their focus on compliance activity on auditing cross border transactions there is an increasing incidence of divergent views and hence the increase in mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases. The workshop on MAP will provide the opportunity for tax and Ministry of Finance officials working on MAP issues to discuss and share best practice on effective treaty dispute resolution which will increase tax certainty in African countries.
The Madagascar Revenue Authority welcomes the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) and various experts and academics from European and African universities and revenue authorities to Antananarivo, for the second and final phase of a series of workshops aimed at revamping the curriculum of the Executive Masters in Taxation (EMT), an ATAF flagship programme.