International Centre for Tax and Development 347d ago

Tax Identification Numbers (TINs) have played a crucial role in identifying taxpayers, enabling the tax administration’s various departments to consolidate their information, and collect information from third-parties to independently verify taxpayer assessments. However, recent years have seen the increasing prominence of national IDs serving the whole-of-government. IDs also appear to have proliferated with the internet and general digitalization, with most organizations requiring some type of unique identifier to manage communications and payments. This event highlights key insights from the forthcoming World Bank – ICTD publication on TINs and brings together tax officials, academics, and international development experts to discuss some of the key opportunities and challenges facing tax administrations in managing identities as part of an ever larger data ecosystem. The event will focus on the following questions: -What are the must-get-right decisions facing tax administrations in recalibrating their TIN policy? -Should Tax Administrations replace TINs with national IDs? -Who are the tax administration’s key partners in expanding and improving the TIN ecosystem? -How have tax administrations in practice gone about building a legal framework to expand data sharing? -What results are tax administrations experiencing from the expanded use of TIN and data-interoperability – and what lies ahead?