01818cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017766 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484307472 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. Suriname : Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Statistics Mission. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (61 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This Technical Assistance Report discusses measures required to improve the national accounts of Suriname, including consistency with the System of National Accounts 2008. The General Bureau of Statistics (GBS) is expected to implement the recommendations of the IMF mission progressively over a five-year period. Given the staff time wasted on data entry and potential transcription errors, the GBS should give high priority to requesting the Ministry of Finance to provide the Government accounts data in Excel format for 2015 onward. With the support of the Finance Minister, the GBS also needs to implement a formal agreement with the Tax Department to share tax registration data, company income tax returns and sales tax returns. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2017/187 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2017/187/002.2017.issue-187-en.xml IMF e-Library