How To Manage Value Added Tax Refunds

Author : Mario Pessoa
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513577042
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Manage Value-Added Tax Refunds written by Mario Pessoa and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value-added tax (VAT) has the potential to generate significant government revenue. Despite its intrinsic self-enforcement capacity, many tax administrations find it challenging to refund excess input credits, which is critical to a well-functioning VAT system. Improperly functioning VAT refund practices can have profound implications for fiscal policy and management, including inaccurate deficit measurement, spending overruns, poor budget credibility, impaired treasury operations, and arrears accumulation.This note addresses the following issues: (1) What are VAT refunds and why should they be managed properly? (2) What practices should be put in place (in tax policy, tax administration, budget and treasury management, debt, and fiscal statistics) to help manage key aspects of VAT refunds? For a refund mechanism to be credible, the tax administration must ensure that it is equipped with the strategies, processes, and abilities needed to identify VAT refund fraud. It must also be prepared to act quickly to combat such fraud/schemes.

Author : Jon Hakken
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effects of Adopting a Value-added Tax written by Jon Hakken and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. Introduction -- II. How a VAT works -- III. Base of a value-added tax -- IV. Who bears the burden of a VAT? -- V. Economic effects of a VAT -- VI. Costs of administering and complying with a VAT -- VII. Direct consumption tax as an alternative to a VAT.

Author : Mr.Santiago Acosta Ormaechea
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 149831418X
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value Added Tax and Growth: Design Matters written by Mr.Santiago Acosta Ormaechea and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the design of a tax matter for growth? Assembling a novel dataset for 30 OECD countries over the 1970-2016 period, this paper examines whether the value added tax (VAT) may have different effects on long-run growth depending on whether it is raised through the standard rate or through C-efficiency (a measure of the departure of the VAT from a perfectly enforced tax levied at a single rate on all consumption). Our key findings are twofold. First, for a given total tax revenue, a rise in the VAT, financed by a fall in income taxes, promotes growth only when the VAT is raised through C-efficiency. Second, for a given VAT revenue, a rise in Cefficiency, offset by a fall in the standard rate, also promotes growth. The implication is thus that in OECD countries broadening the VAT base through fewer reduced rates and exemptions is more conducive to higher long-run growth than a rise in the standard rate.

Author : Cedric Andrew
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Combat Value-Added Tax Refund Fraud written by Cedric Andrew and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A previous IMF Working Paper on value-added tax (VAT) refunds (WP/07/31, by Keen and Smith) describes the main forms of VAT noncompliance and concludes that VAT is susceptible to evasion and fraud like any other tax. This paper shows the insidious nature and extent of VAT refund fraud in selected EU countries and argues that this type of noncompliance requires tax administrations to adopt a coordinated strategy and deploy a range of countermeasures to combat this threat. Because such fraud is primarily a criminal legal issue, tackling it successfully will require cooperation, both internationally between VAT administrations and nationally between tax authorities and the judiciary. The paper’s focus is primarily on advanced economies in the context of the EU, but many of the recommendations are applicable to emerging market and developing countries. A separate IMF How to Note discusses managing VAT refunds in developing countries.

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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 12 pages
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Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
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Total Pages : 12 pages
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Author : Artur Swistak
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Value Added Tax in the Extractive Industries written by Artur Swistak and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lower capacity countries often struggle to administer the Value Added Tax (VAT) in the extractive industries, partly due to the large VAT refunds needs of this capital and export-intensive sector. Assuming that the first-best policy (apply the standard VAT to the extractive industry) is not possible in the medium-term, what should countries do? This paper systemically analyzes second-best VAT policy designs considering the impact of the VAT on three key stakeholders: the investor, domestic suppliers, and the tax administration. The analysis concludes that the generally preferred policy is to provide a VAT exemption for imports and either fully tax or exempt domestic supplies, although country characteristics (and, specifically the relative weighting of stakeholders) matter. Moreover, governments should make efforts to shorten refund delays and transition to a standard VAT over the longer-term.

Author : John Brondolo
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513576488
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Administering the Value-Added Tax on Imported Digital Services and Low-Value Imported Goods written by John Brondolo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This technical note and manual (TNM) addresses the following questions: (1) What are the main challenges in administering the value-added tax on imported digital services and the measures that countries have introduced to address the challenges?; (2) What are the main challenges in administering the value-added tax on low-value imported goods and the measures that countries have introduced to address the challenges? ;and (3) What are the key tasks in implementing the measures for improving the administration of the value-added tax on imported digital services and low-value imported goods?

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Total Pages : 108 pages
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