Technical Assistance for Revenue Administration and Revenue Policy - Guyana

Recipient
OTA-Revenue advisors work with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in building robust anti-corruption measures, implementing HR reforms, organizational restructuring, and developing capacity for basic and specialized industry audits, in preparation for significant offshore petroleum reserves coming online. The GRA has established a Special Investigations Unit (SIU), hired new investigative staff, and agreed to implement a related action plan, organizational structure, and draft background investigations procedures manual. The GRA is implementing a new organizational structure that includes functional descriptions and position descriptions. The GRA agreed to establish a new petroleum revenue audit unit and approved OTAs proposal outlining the mission statement, organizational structure, staffing and action plan. The newly developed petroleum revenue audit manual and related implementation procedures is helping to prepare the staff at the new petroleum audit unit to begin more sophisticated audit work. Work in these areas continue in 2020. A new area of focus includes building capacity to detect, deter, and prosecute tax fraud and tax evasion within the Law Enforcement
Commitment
USD 0.00
Disbursement
USD 64.65
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Private sector in provider country
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Year
2021
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Project Region
Project Number
75_2635
Project crsid
2021014846
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Gender
No
Environment
No