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IBM Cloud Pak for Enterprise Automation designed to help a smoother, extra automated, and well-governed taxation journey
Mar 9, 2022
Cairo, Egypt, 9 March 2022: The Egyptian Ministry of Finance introduced its collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) Consulting and SAP SE to assist automate the Egyptian tax system as a part of the Egyptian authorities’s digital transformation technique.
With taxes representing greater than 75% of the final revenues of the state*, the Egyptian Ministry of Finance kicked off a complete nationwide undertaking for the automation and digitalization of the Egyptian Tax Authority processes and procedures to combine the casual economic system into the formal economic system, improve governance over tax return, checklist the tax neighborhood extra precisely, and broaden the tax base, to put the foundations for tax justice, and truthful competitors in markets.
IBM Consulting, in collaboration with its strategic accomplice SAP, is offering an built-in resolution that’s based mostly on the SAP® Tax and Income Administration for Public Sector bundle. The bundle is designed to equip the Ministry of Finance with a complete enterprise operations automation platform to assist streamline and automate its enterprise processes into clever workflows, improve collaboration and elevate its citizen experiences. The system was efficiently piloted with 10 tax workplaces in Larger Cairo and can proceed to broaden throughout Egypt later this yr.
As a part of the collaboration, IBM carried out IBM Cloud Pak for Enterprise Automation designed to infuse AI into the Ministry’s processes and supply taxpayers, tax officers and collectors with a smoother, extra automated, and well-governed taxation journey. This could improve accuracy in taxpayers’ submissions, drive deeper understanding of the tax course of and allow the Ministry to deal with higher-value work like minimizing tax evasion and serving to enhance nationwide tax income.
Commenting on the achievement, Dr. Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance, mentioned: “The undertaking is a part of the digital transformation technique that the federal government has launched to boost the enterprise ecosystem in Egypt. The modernization of the present taxation system can be a part of the Unified Tax Regulation and the nationwide imaginative and prescient to maximise public revenues.” Dr. Maait added, “The Ministry is eager to undertake superior expertise in its reform agenda which is why we chosen IBM and SAP as companions for the modernization of the tax core system and empowering the e-payments technique.”
Marwa Abbas, Basic Supervisor, IBM Egypt, acknowledged: “We’re honored to be main such a posh undertaking that may assist helps the nationwide economic system. IBM delivered a tailor-made resolution to the Ministry of Finance within the brief time period, and based mostly on the roll-out pilot expertise, the outcomes had been fairly profitable. We’re assured that the built-in core taxation mannequin can help Egypt’s digital transformation journey.”
Jonathan Wright, IBM Consulting acknowledged that: “The automation of the Egyptian Ministry of Finance’s tax system is a vital undertaking to assist drive ahead the nationwide agenda and elevate residents’ experiences. We’ve introduced our trade, course of and expertise expertise along with SAP’s main options, serving as their valued accomplice on this digital transformation journey.”
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*Al Ahram Gate, “Finance: Taxes characterize 75% of the state’s treasury income,” February, 22, 2021