Taxpayer Registration
Target Audience
Managers and senior staff working in the Taxpayer registration area.
Qualifications
No formal qualifications are necessary, but participants should have at least five years' experience in a tax authority.
Course Description
A fundamental initial step in administering taxes is taxpayer registration and numbering. Tax administrations must compile and maintain a complete database of businesses and individuals that are required by law to register. Registration and numbering of each taxpayer underpins key administrative processes associated with filing, assessment, payment and collection.This course will discuss the use of a unique identifier to facilitate routine identification of taxpayers, how to maintain a database of sufficient accuracy to assist interactions with taxpayers, the mechanisms used to remove dormant registrations and approaches to detect unregistered business and individuals especially those representing high revenue risks. Areas covered during the workshop include:
• Efficient registration approaches;
• The use of technology to speed the registration process;
• How to utilize third party data in identification of non-registered taxpayers;
• Understanding how the data can be used to improve tax administration;
• Understanding your Arrears; and
• Tools and techniques to keep the registrations data base up to date.
Course Objectives
At the completion of the workshop participants will be equipped with tools to support them in the management of Taxpayer Registrations and will have developed a country action plan to implement upon return to their agencies.
