Modernizing Tax Administration in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Dec 12 2005 - 12:00pm
Dec 12 2005 - 1:00pm

SID-W event co-sponsored with DevTech


DevTech Systems, Inc. has been working on USAID’s Tax Modernization Project (TAMP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina since October 2001. The project’s main focus, until August 2004, has been on modernizing the major administrative processes of the tax administrations in the Republika Srpska (RS) and the Federation, as well as the Brcko District. Without making significant changes to Bosnian tax policy, TAMP helped to boost revenues and compliance more than 15% per year - more than triple the rate of economic growth. Administrative changes such as the introduction of unique taxpayer identification numbers (TINs) in order to clear out the files of defunct and “ghost” taxpayers and expanding the base of legitimate taxpayers and new information systems to aid in tax enforcement are methods with which TAMP has bolstered revenues and compliance. The TAMP project, extended through June 2006, is now focusing on tax policy reform in order to continue to build on these achievements.


Please join us for a discussion with Sam Greer, a DevTech employee who has been working as a Senior Tax Administration Advisor on USAID’s Bosnia TAMP I and II projects since 2001. Mr. Greer is a former senior manager in tax administration with 42 years of experience on international advisory projects and has worked at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.  He has also worked in Europe, Africa and Central Asia.

Please RSVP to Annelies Sandler asandler@devtechsys.com
 

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