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NT2 Revenue Management. Vientiane Workshop September, 2004. Size of Government Revenue from NT2. Size of Government Revenue from NT2. 5-6% of total Govt revenue & a lower percentage of total public expenditure; 25 % of total health & education spending;
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NT2 Revenue Management Vientiane Workshop September, 2004
Size of Government Revenue from NT2 • 5-6% of total Govt revenue & a lower percentage of total public expenditure; • 25 % of total health & education spending; • 75% of profit tax receipts & 50% of turnover tax • 75% of donor-funding of education spending • 250% of donor-funding of health spending • Primary education for 1.5 million children
NT2 Revenue Management Objectives • Strengthen public expenditure management system and support on-going reforms • Allocate NT2 revenues to priority poverty reduction and environmental protection programs • Ensure transparency in mobilization, allocation and application of NT2 revenues
Strengthening the Public Expenditure Management System • NGPES outlines Government’s PEM reform strategy • Identifies specific measuresto improve expenditure planning, budgeting, financial reporting, accounting, treasury-management • Builds on progress in implementing reformsunder World Bank supported Financial Management Adjustment Credit (FMAC), and under IMF and ADB programs • Builds on extensive analytical work, such as 2002 Public Expenditure Review (joint WB, ADB, IMF, Govt)
Strengthening the Public Expenditure Management System (contd) • Ministry of Finance developing a capacity building program to guide and support PEM reforms • Medium-term perspective with agreed milestones • Performance indicators, monitor progress and impact • Systems development, compliance, management and control • Extensive skills transfer, training at central and provincial levels
Allocating NT2 revenues • Defining Priority expenditure programs • NGPES provides basis for indicative listing of priority programs, ineducation, health, rural infrastructure and agriculture • Criteria for selection of priority programs, such as adequacy of financial management, monitoring framework and performance • Priority programs will be updated, through a consultative process preparing NGPES successors
Allocating NT2 revenues(Contd) • Allocating resources between priority programs • NGPES successors, provide framework for planning allocation of NT2 revenues between priority programs • Annual expenditure planning and budget process, provides basis for allocating NT2 revenues between priority programs • Financial reporting, provides means of verifying application/use of NT2 revenues between programs
Ensuring transparency • Transparency safeguards • Verification of revenues, to ensure NT2 revenues are channeled to a Treasury account & then to priority expenditure programs • Timely publication of financial information, comprehensive state budget, together with allocations, budget execution reports & financial statements for priority expenditure programs • Regular audit and inspectionof priority programs • Internal oversight arrangements to ensure compliance with transparency safeguards
Ensuring transparency(Contd) • External monitoring • Regular Public Expenditure Reviewsimplemented with stakeholders, focusing on priority expenditure programs • Periodic expenditure tracking and service delivery surveys, to track funding to frontline providers & assess impact, in consultation with stakeholders