Consultant – Ring-Fencing Mining Income, Tax Administration
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Mining fiscal policy consultant researching integrated mining and processing tax regimes. Developing IISD/IGF practice-note guidance on ring-fencing and value-addition incentives.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare an inception note proposing the country case set, analytical framework, and relevant legal sources for IGF confirmation
- Confirm how the practice note structure will map onto and extend relevant sections of the 2025 Ring-Fencing Mining Income toolkit
- Examine country cases involving ring-fencing of upstream mining and downstream processing alongside value-addition policies or incentives
- Assess practical interaction, implementation challenges, and unintended consequences of ring-fencing frameworks and downstream incentives
- Conduct discussions with government officials and other stakeholders where relevant
- Review primary legal sources for each case-study country, including mining codes, income tax acts, royalty legislation, and special licensing regimes
- Establish the legal definition of the ring-fence and treatment of integrated versus stand-alone projects
- Analyze processing-stage value-addition incentives, transfer-pricing regulation, and relevant case law or administrative guidance
- Identify integrated projects illustrating application of ring-fencing and value-addition incentives, including documented disputes
- Compile documented estimates or reasonable proxies for incentive fiscal costs and evidence of investment or beneficiation outcomes
- Conduct light-touch validation with country officials and practitioners where desk research leaves material gaps
- Draft, review, and finalize the practice note/report
Requirements:
- Expertise in mining fiscal policy and comparative tax law
- Experience with mining fiscal policy, tax expenditure analysis, or mineral beneficiation policy
- Ability to conduct desk-based legal and literature research
- Ability to review mining codes, income tax acts, royalty legislation, and special licensing regimes
- Ability to analyze ring-fencing rules, integrated extraction-processing operations, value-addition incentives, transfer pricing, and case law or administrative guidance
- Ability to identify integrated projects and assess fiscal costs and investment or beneficiation outcomes
- Ability to conduct light-touch validation by email or short call with country officials and practitioners
- Appropriate work authorization for the location where the applicant expects to be based
- English-language application submissions
- Incomplete applications will be automatically disqualified
Benefits:
- Consultant position
- Remote work arrangement
- Opportunity to contribute to an IISD/IGF practice note on mining value-addition incentives and ring-fencing
- Professional engagement with government officials and other stakeholders
- Applications reviewed on a rolling basis until filled
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