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Oversight of Payment and Settlement Systems
Online Course: June 22 – July 3, 2020ICEF Online Learning Campus
Identifying Tax Fraud, Including Online Trade
Online Course: September 7 – 18, 2020
Developing Internal Auditor's Communication Skills
Online Course: Week of September 14 – 24, 2020ICEF Online Learning Campus
Ensuring Fiscal Transparency and Budget Comprehensiveness
Webinar: September 24, 2020ICEF Online Learning Campus
Fostering Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) through Cooperation
Online Course: September 28 – October 9, 2020

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CEF Online Learning Campus

Oversight of Payment and Settlement Systems

Online course: June 22 – July 3, 2020

We will focus on the oversight of payment systems, payment infrastructures and service providers, and securities settlement systems. Participants will receive a good overview of payment and settlement systems, international guidelines, European and national frameworks..
Identifying Tax Fraud, Including Online Trade

Online Course: September 7 – 18, 2020

Participants will discuss the challenges of increasing online trade and identifying tax fraud, as these topics are closely linked.The first part will focus on a broader perspective of fraud (different strategies to detect tax fraud and evasion, guidance how to effectively address the risks when identifying tax fraud and evasion, fighting tax fraud). Concrete real cases will be shared with participants.

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The Costing Guidance Allows More Precise Costing of Structural Reform Measures

Ms. Zana Radoniqi, Senior Budget Analyst, at the Ministry of Finance and Transfers in Kosovo* is well aware of the importance of structural reforms for boosting growth and employment in her country. While implementation of structural reform agenda is a priority for the country, Ms. Radoniqi highlights also the…

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Nobody Reads
June 23, 2020 / Kaja Jurtela
When I buy a book, I usually have the intention to read it, but sometimes it happens that it is not the right moment or there is something else to read (or the typical “I don’t have time” excuse). I place the book on my bookshelf and look at it from time to time, and it reminds me how great it would be to read it one day. Probably this does not happen only to me. And actually, there is nothing wrong…

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Dutch Ministry of Finance and CEF: Sharing Knowledge on Tax Audits and Compliance Risk Management

The Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands is a longstanding partner of the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) in supporting public finance reforms in South East European countries. Most of them are countries that the Netherlands is partnering with in its constituencies at the IMF, World Bank and the EBRD.…

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