Application Due Date: November 3rd 2019

The African Tax Administration Online Forum (ATAF) is happy to reveal the second Africa broad Tax Essay Competitors (ATEC) for2019 The essay competitors is developed to motivate young African scientists, academics and tax authorities to recognize issues or difficulties dealt with by African tax administrations and propose ingenious options.

STYLE:
The ATAF second Africa-wide Tax Essay Competitors (ATEC) provides you the chance to advance your possible and easily implementable options on how African tax administrations can innovatively tax the digitalised economy. Essays need to deal with concerns relating to imaginative concepts that can cause ground-breaking options to the tax difficulties presented by digitalisation.

For this year’s competitors, individuals are needed to compose on the following subject: African viewpoints on the tax difficulties from the digitalisation of the economy.

In January 2019, ATAF’s Cross Border Tax Committee (CBT) seriously talked about numerous propositions and procedures on the tax difficulties from the digitalisation of the economy. The taking place ATAF Technical Notes required essential modifications to the worldwide tax guidelines primarily due to the fact that digitalisation has actually even more resulted in restricted or no physical existence in many African jurisdictions consequently denying them of their taxing rights.

In addition, the fundamental earnings allowance guidelines do not adequately show the worth produced for International business by the brand name understanding in the minds of the consumers in the market jurisdiction. ATAF stresses that modifications to these nexus and earnings allowance guidelines need to use more broadly than to simply the extremely digitalised companies (see ATAF’s associated technical notes on the ATAF site).

ELIGIBILITY
The ATAF second ATEC 2019 is open to all African scientists, tax authorities, academics and tax professionals aged 40 or less Ladies are highly motivated to take part.

TERMS

  1. The essay should be theme-based and need to not have actually been released in other places at the time of submission.
  2. The essay should initially be composed by the entrant as its sole creator/author.
  3. Plagiarised essays will instantly be disqualified
  4. ATAF.
    staff members or any main associated with the advancement, production,.
    execution, administration, evaluating or fulfilment of the competitors.
    are not qualified to go into.
  5. ATAF will schedule the right to release and share granted essays.
  6. ATAF will not be accountable for any breach of copyright or privacy by any author.
  7. Winners of the competitors will NOT be entitled to represent ATAF in any way other than reference this award in their CV.
  8. If.
    an author accepts a deal of publication from elsewhere prior to.
    being alerted about the outcomes of this competitors, ATAF needs to be.
    notified right away.
  9. ATAF will have the last authority to unwind any of the requirements in the bigger interests of the occupation and research study.
  10. The choice of the Judges on the choice of essays will be last.
  11. Choice of an essay by ATAF will not suggest that ATAF backs or signs up for the views revealed by the author.
  12. The essay submissions will be assessed on a first-come, first-served basis
  13. The essay will be considered disqualified if it breaks any of the above conditions

ESSAY FORMAT REQUIREMENTS
The essay should comply with the list below basic structure or overview:

  • Intro, Issue Declaration, Method, Secret findings, Ramifications of findings, Secret implementable suggestions

The following specs should be followed:

  1. The length of the essay need to NOT surpass 1000 words (2 pages).
  2. The basic format of the essay need to be Arial, Font Style 12, a 1-inch margin on all sides and 1.0 line spacing.
  3. Any consistent mode of citation can be followed for footnotes with Arial, Font Style 10 and 1 line spacing.
  4. Should be sent as a Microsoft Word file ONLY.
  5. A passport-sized picture of utmost 5 MB should be sent together with the essay
  6. The Essay should be composed in English
  7. Please KEEP IN MIND that submissions should consist of 2 (02) files:
    i.
    The title page need to consist of short article’s title, complete name, organization,.
    kind of organization, task position, mobile number, alternative phone.
    number, nation of house, citizenship, native land, main.
    language, secondary language, postal address and e-mail address.
    ii.Anonymised primary essay showing figures, tables (if any) with numbering, title, source and recommendations

Essays that stop working to follow these requirements will be instantly disqualified.

DUE DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 3 November 2019
REWARDS AND AWARDS:
The rewards of the ATAF second Africa-wide Tax Essay Competitors 2019 will be as follows:

  • Very First Reward: 1500 USD, a Prize
    and an award certificate The winner will be welcomed to ATAF’s10
    years Anniversary to be kept in Kampala, Uganda from 18 to 22 November.
    2019 for an unique award event with flight and lodging expenditures.
    covered. At the celebration, the winner will be needed to make a.
    discussion of the essay at the existence of all heads of tax.
    administrations in Africa.
  • 2nd Reward: USD 1000, a Prize
    and an award certificate.
  • 3rd Reward: USD 750, a Prize
    and an award certificate
  • The very best 10 essays
    ( consisting of the 3 winners) will be released in the book of ATAF’s Collections of Abstracts on Tax Systems in Africa.
  • All other individuals
    will get an ATEC 2019
    involvement certificate.

For More Details:

Check Out the Authorities Web Page of the ATAF second Africa-Wide Tax Competitors 2019

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