{"id":2564,"date":"2021-02-27T20:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T19:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/2021\/02\/27\/ministerstvo-financii-sr-cef-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:24:36","slug":"tax-ministerstvo-financii-sr-ati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/2021\/02\/27\/tax-ministerstvo-financii-sr-ati\/","title":{"rendered":"More effective tax policies: MF SR and ATI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sharing\u00a0experiences\u00a0and\u00a0lessons learned from numerous reforms in public finance management, including those of revenue\u00a0mobilisation,\u00a0has been a\u202fcornerstone of the Slovak development cooperation for years.\u00a0In\u00a02015, the country joined The Addis Tax Initiative\u00a0(ATI)\u00a0and became part of\u00a0a broad international network of stakeholders active in the field of tax and development.<\/p>\n<p>The Addis Tax Initiative is a\u202fglobal,\u00a0multi-stakeholder partnership that aims to\u00a0promote tax justice, mobilize public finance revenues, build effective tax systems,\u00a0and fight against tax evasion. One of its goals is to\u00a0enhance domestic\u00a0revenue\u00a0mobilisation\u00a0(DRM) in partner countries.\u00a0The ATI builds on the premise that\u00a0DRM\u00a0is the most sustainable and reliable source of financing for development.<\/p>\n<h3>Global tax debate<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0ATI\u00a0was initiated in 2015\u00a0in response to the approval of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals,\u00a0and\u00a0that is\u00a0when the Slovak Ministry of Finance joined the initiative as a\u202fdevelopment partner\u00a0by pledging to fulfil\u202fthe\u00a0ATI\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.addistaxinitiative.net\/ati-commitments\">commitments<\/a>.\u00a0One of the key objectives of\u00a0the\u00a0ATI is to\u00a0integrate\u00a0partner countries into the global tax debate.<\/p>\n<p>Currently,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.addistaxinitiative.net\/ati-members\">20 development partners and 25 partner countries<\/a> have signed the ATI Declaration. Further, the Addis Tax Initiative accounts with 17\u00a0supporting\u00a0expert\u00a0organisations, which provide Official Development Assistance to DRM-related projects and\u00a0contribute to\u00a0the objectives of the Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>ATI&#8217;s endeavours and partners&#8217; commitments for\u00a0particular periods\u00a0of time\u00a0are guided by Declarations\u00a0(the\u00a0first one was valid for\u00a0the\u00a02015 -2020\u00a0period).\u00a0In January 2021, the members\u00a0approved\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/2021\/02\/02\/mfsr-declaration-ati-2025\/\">ATI Declaration 2025<\/a>,\u00a0which contains\u00a0four objectives\u00a0for\u00a0promoting and\u00a0financing socio-economic development through domestic revenues:<br \/>\n(1)\u00a0promotion of\u00a0equitable tax policies,\u00a0effective and transparent revenue administrations,<br \/>\n(2) maintaining\u00a0or surpassing the global target (USD 441.1 million) for DRM cooperation,<br \/>\n(3) apply coherent and coordinated policies that foster DRM and combat tax-related illicit financial flows,<br \/>\n(4) enhance space for accountability stakeholders to engage in tax and revenue matters.<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0Eduard Heger, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the Slovak Republic,\u00a0affirm Slovakia\u2019s support for the new ATI Declaration 2025 in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/international-tax-compact_high-level-statement-by-mr-eduard-heger-activity-6742793242737180672-3Qm7\/\">a\u202fshort video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the\u00a0ATI at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.addistaxinitiative.net\/\">https:\/\/www.addistaxinitiative.net\/<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Slovak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[89],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ATI.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}