The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and German government's development agency GIZ have agreed to share experience in the fields of monitoring and evaluation, performance framework, broadening tax base and registration process for improving tax compliance in Pakistan.
Sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday that the FBR and GIZ have developed a Study Tour Report on the Fostering Capacity of Federal Board of Revenue in Organisational Development. Details revealed that a study tour of the FBR to Germany was facilitated by the Result Area Taxation within the Support to Good Governance Programme implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft for Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) 'GmbH' on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The study tour provided an opportunity to select the FBR officers to study the performance management frameworks, monitoring, and evaluation systems for tax collections, as well as the registration and enforcement processes within tax offices in Germany.
The objective was to contribute to the internal efforts of enhancing the performance by FBR through understanding international lessons learnt in the context of organisational development and increase knowledge of the participants with regard to the challenges faced in tax compliance and broadening of tax base in Germany. It was jointly agreed between FBR and GIZ to make use of the experience exchange and facilitate an improved understanding of possible solutions for organizational development and process design, especially in the fields of monitoring and evaluation, performance framework, broadening tax base, registration process and tax compliance. The detailed study tour report including recommendations from the post study tour workshop jointly implemented by the study tour participants of FBR and GIZ for identifying possible steps for organizational development of the FBR, sources added.
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