Department

Department of Tax and Customs Administrations

The success of tax and customs transformation programs depends largely on building the capacity of human capital that deals with tax and customs administration. As a result, education and training programs in the tax and customs administration become key in modern taxations system. The Department of Tax & Customs Administration of ECSU was established in collaboration with the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs administrations (ERCA) to develop the discipline of taxation and customs to make contributions to different professional programs  and focus on research and under graduate and  postgraduate studies. DTCA  is at the forefront of tertiary education in tax & customs administration in Ethiopia and collaborates with stakeholders  to ensure continued excellence in learning and teaching of revenue sector. The Department constitutes three programs; namely, Master of Arts in Degree in Tax Administrations, Master of arts in Customs Administrations, and Bachelor of Arts in Tax and Customs Administrations. The focus of the Department of TCA is training  professionals at satisfying national need for trained  competent Practitioners in tax administration, customs administration or public finance management, specifically in the area of  tax assessment, tax collection, customs operators, customs auditors, tax auditors, investigators, and customs managers. It also aims at strengthening the skills of tackling the tax & customs fraud and other unethical behaviors.