National Consultant for Tax Expenditure (TE) Database to Support MoF | ||
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Procurement Process : | IC - Individual contractor | |
Office : | UNDP-LAO - LAO PDR | |
Deadline : | 15-May-24 @ 12:59 PM (New York time) | |
Published on : | 25-Apr-24 @ 12:00 AM (New York time) | |
Development Area : | OTHER | |
Reference Number : | UNDP-LAO-00317 | |
Contact : | kongthanou.khanthavixay, Procurement Analyst - kongthanou.khanthavixay@undp.org | |
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Introduction : Country: Lao PDR. Description of the Assignment: Background
The Ministry of Finance, under the same project, has finished the testing of the illustrative model of the database in early 2024. MOF’s Fiscal Policy Department (FPD), with support from UNDP is seeking the services of a National Consultant to provide research, data collection, data entry and coordination support on delivering a tax expenditure reporting framework and database. Objective Under the overall guidance of the Fiscal Policy Department (FPD), the Ministry of Finance (MOF), in close coordination with the Project Management Unit of NPFID Project and UNDP Project Assurance team (Inclusive Growth Unit of UNDP), the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks: 1. Provide technical input, facilitation, interpretation, and coordination support to the Ministry of Finance and the IT consulting firm to successfully transform the tax exemption illustrative model into a functional database. 2. Closely work with the IT consulting firm to ensure that the database has a functional user interface that allows data input and updates. 3. Closely work with the IT consulting firm to ensure that the database can store and generate useful data tables to identify revenue foregone from each type of tax exemption and preferential tax treatment. 4. Work with the IT consulting firm to ensure that it is linked with other databases and develop a user manual for the Ministry of Finance and relevant government entities. Period of assignment/services: 120 working days over 6 months.
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