Recommendations of the delegates participating in the conference.

The Reports as submitted by the Conference Rapporteurs having been scrutinized, corrected / amended, where necessary, and finally duly approved by the respective Chairpersons in the various Sessions.

It is hereby resolved that:                  

1. The officer’s of the (Taxation) Training Institutions of the Association of Tax Authorities of Islamic Countries (ATAIC) will continue to meet at regular intervals to discuss and consider issues pertinent to the training of their taxation personnel.

2. All Members of the ATAIC shall participate fully in Conferences / Workshops held and absence will be avoided.

3. To improve interaction between Members, special efforts will be made to overcome the “language barrier” between Members.

4. Normally, English (UK) will be used as a common medium of expression between Members and Members will make efforts to improve the English expression and comprehension of their Taxation Training Institutions personnel, especially those likely to participate in International Conferences.

5. When ATAIC Members hold Conferences, where possible, simultaneous translation facilities

   1. (English to Arabic) will be provided.

6. There shall be improved sharing of relevant information between ATAIC Members  and the World Wide Web /Internet will be fully and properly put to use in this context.

7. Relevant statistical information / data will be organized and maintained in a common, mutually acceptable format, with effective safeguards / security to ensure data integrity but at the same time readily accessible by Members.

8. ATAIC Members will make their Training Institutions / facilities available for training of each others taxation personnel on a reciprocal, ‘no profit, no loss’ basis.

9. As far as possible, Members will endeavor to use state of the art but “appropriate” technologies in imparting instruction, including “information technology.”

10. Members will also use dynamic but “appropriate,” multi-dimensional training methodologies, including ‘simulation modules,’ in imparting instruction.

11. Members will consult each other on curricula for different subjects in which instruction is imparted in the training institutions and will endeavor to ‘harmonize’ curricula used, as far as is practical and feasible.

12. There shall be special emphasis on providing training in "forensic audit," and "computer forensics" to taxation personnel.  

13. The imaginative use of information technology, including computers and related peripheral equipment, will be accelerated in training institutions.

14. Malaysia will be “Best practices model” in imparting instruction in "Forensic Audit," "Computer Forensics" and in the use of "Simulation Methodology" in training.

15. Turkey (OBSERVER COUNTRY but active participant) will be “Best practices Model” in computerization and data warehousing.

16. Pakistan’s experience with "Self Assessment" / "voluntary compliance," "Withholding Taxation" and ‘Joint Audit Training’ will be referred to by Members in designing their training programs.

17. The Pakistan Direct Taxation Training Institution (DOT(DT)) will make necessary  arrangements to provide training in English Language communication skills to ATAIC Members desirous of receiving such training, on a ‘no profit, no loss’ basis.

18. The "Informal Sector" will receive special emphasis in the Training curricula.

19. ATAIC Taxation Training Manuals will be digitized and On-Line access by Members will be enabled.

Issued by the Conference Convener, this 14^th day of March, 2007 and sent to all Members of the ATAIC.

 MUHAMMAD MUNIR QURESHI

 Director General                                                                                                                                    ATAIC Conference Picture Gallery

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