Tax Administration & Revenue Mobilization
Modern tax administration, digital revenue systems, transfer pricing, and domestic resource mobilization for governments.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Donor-funded tax administration pilots succeed in three districts and fail at scale, and the system cannot explain why one works and the other does not. Under fiscal pressure, every wasted tax administration shilling is a borrowed shilling: the gap now compounds through debt service. The programme equips you to sequence reform, manage the politics and defend the evidence — the full craft of tax administration that gets delivered.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design tax administration policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Trace tax administration money to outcomes and defend the trace under scrutiny.
- Sequence tax administration reform so it survives resistance, turnover and the next budget cycle.
- Manage tax administration programmes with fiduciary discipline and visible value for money.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a devolved county government. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the tax administration analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
The tax administration data at a devolved county government measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a devolved county government — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A tax administration delivery dashboard that resists gaming.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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