Strategic consultant to General Department of Property Tax

The scope and focus of the assignment are to provide technical, strategic consultancy to GDPT to support them to develop a New Vision 2024-2029, Business Strategy 2024-2029 and Action Plan 2024-2026.

In 2016 GDPT presented its masterplan 2016-2019. In this plan the importance of property tax was emphasized especially in the context of incomplete land settlement, requiring great efforts from property tax.  At the moment only 85 out of 132 municipalities are part of property tax.  This falls in the context of preserving both the rights of citizens and the state.   

This importance was confirmed when the Palestinian Authority identified land sector reform as a main priority in the National Policy Agenda 2017-2022. In January 2017, the Prime Minister’s Office presented a Road Map for reforming the Palestinian land sector. The Road Map addresses Key Land Reform Pillars, including property tax reform. Domestic revenue mobilization is key to the development of Palestinian municipalities, not least because of the municipalities’ role in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Property tax is to be at the heart of municipal revenue mobilization.

It is key that all parties who are involved in land reform and property tax join efforts to speed up the reform process.

To achieve this an integrated strategic plan, supported by all stakeholders is needed. Given its important role, GDPT should be in the leading role to manage this change process. Stakeholders on governmental and municipal level are highly involved (like MoLG and APLA).

The whole process towards a strategical plan consists of 3 steps:

1. Development of a new vision
2. Development of a new strategy
3. The development of the three-years action plan

1. Vision

A starting point, to achieve this is the development of a new vision and strategy on how this could be realized

Key elements to be elaborated are:

• Co-operation between the different parties as a national team
• Ensuring that property taxation is brought within the tax revenue strategy.
• New definitions of roles and responsibilities
• The importance of a collection led strategy
• Standardization of procedures and data
• Simplification of procedures
• Role of IT

How to get there

• Launching meeting with GDPT general director, GDPT departments directors and head of units to discuss scope, methodology and timeline.
• Interviews with relevant stakeholders to collect input and prepare them on the workshop
• Vision workshop with all relevant governmental and municipal institutions
• Vision document as output of the workshop

2. Business Strategy

Starting point for developing a business strategy is a thorough analysis of, and an agreement on the weaknesses in the current system. These weaknesses will be plotted in the following clusters:

• Fiscal performance
• Revenue collection procedures
• IT support
• HR
• Organization
• Citizen’s communication and involvement
• Ownership, leadership and management
• Reviewing the existing (by-)laws
• Dependencies/Linkages between taxes.

Next in an assessment question will be answered like:

• Which remedial interventions are possible
• Which returns are likely the highest
• Which areas are most tractable
• Which priorities are needed for action

The assessment questions should include how the fiscal performance and revenue collection procedures can be more closely integrated into the tax revenue strategy so as to ensure that land reform includes all aspects of taxation affecting the sector 

 Base on the output of the analysis and assessment a strategical plan will be developed.

How to get there

• Analysis of existing plans and reports
• Institutional review
• Strategy workshop with all relevant governmental and municipal institutions
• Strategy document as output of the workshop

3. Developing the action plan 2024-2026

• Formulate strategic framework-guided by the output of the first two steps

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Outputs (expected deliverables) :

Arabic / English

• Vision document
• Strategy document
• Three-years Action Plan

Requirements: 

• Experience in developing and implementing reform strategies
• Experience in Business Change
• Understanding of the context of property tax in Palestine
• A pro-active and cooperative attitude
• Analytical and reporting skills

Period of the Assignment: February – April 2024

Up to 30 working days

The expert will work in close collaboration with the international taxation experts. The way of collaboration will be discussed upon the start of the assignment.

The review and quality assurance will be the responsibility of the international property tax experts.

Qualified Local expert is requested to submit application form that consists of: cover letter, CVs, technical offer includes methodology and approach, and financial offer by COB, Tuesday, 6th February 2024.

Please indicate your ability, availability and daily rate in euro to undertake the above ToR.

Applications to be sent via email to

Mrs. Amal Odeh.

[email protected]