Fiscal Year 2022
Capacity Development Activities
Revenue Administration (Feb 18-25)
METAC delivered a three-day training to help the tax administration strengthening tax compliance in the digital economy. This includes the international context of the digital economy and platform typologies; CRM principles and their application to the compliance risks posed by platforms and platform vendors. The sessions also provided an overview of common international practices for the tax treatment of the digital economy, as well as the organizational implications related to creating a working group to bring focus to managing compliance risks.
Statistics (Feb 27-Mar 10; Aug 22-Sep 2)
METAC conducted a second activity to assist the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics with the compilation of institutional sector (current and capital) accounts. Building upon the work of the first activity in August, the mission helped with processing new source data on financial corporations, rest of the world, general government, and households. The mission also set up a central tool to integrate and make manual adjustments to the accounts.
METAC assisted the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in initiating the development of current and capital accounts and trained six staff on conceptual and measurement issues related to institutional sector accounts. Data sources were assessed and deemed sufficient to compile current and capital accounts; concordance files to map the source data to System of National Accounts institutional and instrument category codes were initiated; and a roadmap was proposed to complete the compilations by April 2023.
