The CIAT Executive Secretariat conducted a technical mission to the Tax and Customs Directorate of Suriname to collect information for designing the Terms of Reference to the construction and implementation of a new internal taxes management integrated system.

Based on this document, the Director of Revenue and Customs, Mr. Cornelis A. Van Dijk, and the Ministry of Finance of Suriname will present the project to the Inter-American Development Bank – IDB, for financing.

Raul Zambrano, Director of Technical Assistance and Information Technology, and Francisco Beiner, Director of Operations and Institutional Management conducted this mission on September 24 to 27.

Raúl Zambrano y Francisco Beiner with Cornelis A. Van Dijk, Director of Taxes and Customs; Joan Veldhuizen, Chief-Inspector of Direct Taxes; and Carlos Wong, Chief-Collector of Direct Taxes.