We offer technical assistance to the member countries tax administrations that request it, including sub-national administrations, customs and exceptionally to countries not members of CIAT

 

STRATEGY

The technical assistance provided by CIAT attends to specific requirements of the member countries administrations. They are addressed through medium- and long-term projects, financed by the administrations themselves through their budgets or through loans from development agencies; or short and medium term projects financed with funding from donors and development agencies managed by the Executive Secretariat.

| MODALITIES|

There are different ways in which CIAT provides assistance with varying degrees of formality. According to the extent and the degree of participation of the CIAT

 

Tax administrations may request technical assistance to be executed directly by officials from the Executive Secretariat.

In general, the tax administration requesting this assistance should cover travel expenses and per diems of officials and the direct and indirect costs of the officials during the time that the Executive Secretariat invest in the assistance.

This type of assistance may be given in the following areas:

In the case of implementation of projects, CIAT provides technical assistance in tax administration services to serve the needs and interests expressed by the member countries and associated countries, through activities of diagnosis, follow-up and evaluation of projects, aimed at strengthening their administrations.

These activities are structured in projects and defined in terms of their scope, responsibilities, deliverables, timelines and costs on contracts, memorandums of understanding or global cooperation agreements that incorporate specific projects by addendum.

These projects are coordinated by the Technical Assistance Directorate and International Cooperation, through the Technical Assistance Management or the International Cooperation Directorate, for those that are financed with funds from donors, and are implemented through the participation of consultants.

Consultants involved in these projects are part of the organization’s database, including officials or former officials of tax administrations, coordinated and directed by CIAT to develop the activities established in the projects.

The costs in this category is established case by case, and include elements such as advances, insurance and contingencies. The cost structure is normally presented to the tax administration which receives the assistance. The CIAT adds a charge of between 14% and 20% of the value of the contract for management and supervision costs.

| AREAS OF ACTION |

Customized courses

Each of our courses, virtual or face-to-face is adapted according to the needs of the tax administration requesting it, through the design of guides and training activities that may facilitate its development and knowledge acquisition.

Human Talent

We provide the Tax Administrations technical assistance related to the selection, induction, training, management, evaluation and severance programs, in order to set up competitive working teams that may allow for achieving the objectives and strategies of the administrations. In addition, we seek to stress the fact that human talent is the most important resource of the Tax Administrations.

Support for the creation, development and strengthening of the training centers

We serve as support in the implementation and strengthening of the Training Centers existing in the Tax Administrations, by assisting and orienting the process of their creation or improvement.

Program certification

At the request of our member countries, we undertake the certification of the training programs they carry out. This task is carried out through the review of the themes, methodology and contents of the programs, by suggesting adjustments, complements or modifications for improving their technical quality and in addition, we assist in the identification of tutors or expert professors of the different subjects.

CIAT has assisted several tax administrations as a facilitator in the internal processes to design the organization’s strategy, formulate strategic plans, in the definition of strategy maps and the identification of compliance indicators. The participation of CIAT as an external facilitator, but with a wide knowledge on tax administration and policies, has been important in these processes.

CIAT may assist tax administrations in the design and development of tax studies, particularly those related to economic and econometric studies and the development of models, for example, the tax expenditure measurement or estimation of the collection potential.

This is an area of development in the field of technical assistance and responds to the current trend of international taxation, in aspects such as transfer pricing, exchange of information and measures to prevent the erosion of tax bases.

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