Taxation and risk-based audits
Fostering Senegal’s enterprise data collection
2011 - Senegal
Client: International Labour Organization (ILO)

ECOPA was asked by the International Labor Organization to strengthen the enterprise data collection of Senegal’s Agence Nationale de Statistique et Démographie (ANSD). ECOPA provided recommendations to improve data collection and quality control procedures as well as enhance synergies across institutions for an efficient management of the business register.
 


Tags : 2011 Senegal
Friday July 8, 2011
Promoting a favorable fiscal environment for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in Senegal
2011 - Senegal
Client: International Labour Organization (ILO)

ECOPA was asked by the International Labor Organization to improve the tax environment of MSMEs in Senegal. Using its standard analytical tools (including Marginal Effective Tax Rates) as well as its international experience of business taxation, ECOPA provided practical recommendations to simplify and improve the taxation of MSMEs.


Tags : 2011 Senegal
Friday July 8, 2011
Development of a risk-based audit system
2010 - Vietnam
Clients: The World Bank/IFC

IFC asked ECOPA to assist the General Department of Taxation of Vietnam (GDT) to enhance its audit system. ECOPA has developed and calibrated a scoring system that explicitly links taxpayer risk with individual characteristics. This scoring system is planned to become the basis of the GDT's audit strategy.


Tags : 2010 Vietnam
Thursday July 7, 2011
Designing a risk-based audit strategy
2010 - Yemen
Client: Apex Consulting

The overall objective of this mission was to design a risk-based audit strategy for the Tax Administration of Yemen (TAY). This was done through the development of an state-of-the-art econometric model identifying top risk predictors. Although the assignment focused on business taxation, the model and scorecards provided are designed so that they can be expanded to personal taxation at a later stage.


Tags : 2010 Yemen
Monday May 16, 2011
Review of draft investment code and special economic zone draft law
2009 - Togo
Client: The World Bank

ECOPA conducted a study of these two draft laws as part of an analysis of business taxation in Togo using Marginal Effective Tax Rates. Strategic recommendations on the texts and their harmonization with the general tax reform were provided.


Tags : 2009 Togo
Monday May 16, 2011
Informal sector and taxation
2009 - Mauritania
Client: The World Bank

ECOPA assisted the World Bank in the finalization of Mauritania's Country Economic Memorandum, focusing on business taxation and the informal sector. Recommendations were provided on tax simplification and institutional strengthening in the tax administration.


Tags : 2009 Mauritania
Monday May 16, 2011
Study for the calculation of marginal effective tax rates in the WAEMU
2009 - METRs in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Client: The WAEMU Commission

For the WAEMU Commission, ECOPA analysed business taxation in the region, with METRs for each country and each tax regime. Recommendations were provided on business taxation strategy in the WAEMU.


Monday May 16, 2011
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