9:00‒9:30 a.m.
| Registration |
9:30‒9:50 a.m.
9:50‒10:00 a.m.
10:00‒10:20 a.m.
| Opening Remarks
- Bruno Carrasco
Director General concurrently Chief Compliance Officer, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Tetsushi Sonobe
Dean and Chief Executive Officer, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Welcome Remarks
- Minoru Nakamura
Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs, National Tax Agency (NTA)
Keynote Address
- Michael Keen
Ushioda Fellow, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo
Moderator: Hiranya Mukhopadhyay, Chief of Governance Thematic Group, SDCC, ADB
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10:20‒10:50 a.m.
| Photo
Session and Coffee Break
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10:50
a.m.–12:20 p.m.
| Master of Ceremony: Daisuke Miura, Public Management Specialist (Taxation), SDCC,
ADB
Session 1: Digital Transformation of Tax Administration with a Focus on Developing a Comprehensive Strategy Moderator: Richard Stern, Consultant, ADB
Speakers:
- Yuki Araki
Senior Governance Specialist, Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth Unit, Macroeconomic, Trade and Investment Department, World Bank - So-young Yoon
Deputy Director, ICT Management Division, National Tax Service, Republic of Korea - Chimi Dekar
Assistant Collector, Income Tax Division, Department of Revenue and Customs, Bhutan - Erma Sulistyarini
Deputy Director of Transformation Management, Directorate of Business Process Transformation, Directorate General Of Taxes of Indonesia - Walo
Ilaupa
Assistant
Commissioner, Information and Communication Technology, Internal Revenue
Commission, Papua New Guinea
This session will discuss the importance of a comprehensive strategy for tax administration reform through digital transformation, and to share country experience in moving forward towards automation of tax administration.
Q&A
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12:20‒1:30 p.m.
| Lunch
Break
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1:30‒2:45 p.m.
| Session 2: Effective Management of Taxpayer Registration with the Use of Digital Technologies Moderator: Pitchaya Sirivunnabood, Deputy Head and Senior Capacity Building and Training (CBT) Economist, ADBI
Speakers:
- Margaret Cotton
Deputy Division Chief, Revenue Administration II,
Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Fund (IMF) - Aekapol Chongvilaivan
Senior Economist (Public Finance), Southeast Asia Department, ADB - Maridur Rosario
Deputy Commissioner of Operations Group, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Department of Finance, Philippines - Davit Berishvili
Advisor, Tax and Customs Policy Department, Ministry of Finance, Georgia
This session will explore countries’ efforts in ensuring that all taxpayers are properly registered with their tax authority through a modern registration system, as the first step in improving tax compliance.
Q&A |
2:45‒3:45 p.m.
| Session 3: Taxpayer Education and Taxpayer Services with Digital Tools Moderator: Annette Chooi, Consultant, ADB Speakers: - Melinda Brown
Senior Tax Advisor, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Michael Tay Tiong Yuan
Senior Assistant Director, Taxpayer Experience Division-Service Experience Centre, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore - Lamy Mong
Bureau Chief, Tax Policy Bureau, Department of Law, Tax Policy and International Tax Cooperation, General Department of Taxation, Cambodia
This session will share countries’ initiatives in taxpayer education which may benefit tax authorities, helping to boost voluntary tax compliance and support more predictable tax revenue collection.
Q&A |
| 3:45‒4:15 p.m. | Coffee
Break
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4:15–5:30
p.m.
| Session 4: Data Analytics, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Tax Administration, and Collection of Third-Party Data for Enhancing Tax Audit Moderator: Annette Chooi, Consultant, ADB
Speakers: - Tetsuya Kuge
Senior Advisor, Public Finance Management/Tax Administration, Governance and Peacebuilding Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency - Dae Yong Kim
Director of Development Studies Division at Center for International Development and the Global Knowledge Cooperation in Global Knowledge Exchange & Development Center, Korea Development Institute - Bacho bin Abdul Karim
Deputy Director, Tax Operations Department, Inland Revenue Board, Malaysia - Munkhdavaa Nyambaatar
Senior tax official, Tax Administration and International Taxation Department, General Department of Taxation Mongolia
This session will explore countries’ experiences in strengthening capacity of tax administration to analyze and utilize substantive amounts of tax-related data with innovative technologies, obtained from other agencies and third-party.
Q&A |
6:00–8:00
p.m.
| Cocktail
Reception hosted by ADBI
Venue: Botan no Ma, 37F Common Gate West Building, Kazan Kaikan
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