This presentation was made by Veiko TALI, Estonia, at the 40th Annual Meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials (SBO) held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 5-6 June 2019

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Private debt (OECD 150%)
Public debt (OECD 73%)

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2016 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 2055 2060 2065 2070
Estonia
Euro area
EU

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28. Governance
EnterpreneurshipandInnovation
Transportation
InformationSociety
ForeignPolicy
Energetics
SafetyandDefence
LawandOrder
InternalSecurity
ResearchandDevelopment
Education
Culture
Sports
EstonianLanguageandestonians
Environment
AgricultureandFishery
FamilyPolicy
LabourMarket
SocialSecuriy
Health
Integration
Estonia 2035
Defence
ForeignAf.
Interior
Justice
Culture
Environment
Education Economy
Agriculture
Social Affairs
Ministries
responsible
GovOffic
Environment
Finance
Education
Performance
areas
Completion of strategic planning system

29. Government
action plan
(4 years)
Long-term strategic plan „Estonia 2035“
Long term
15 years
4 years
State Budget
4 years
Performance areas strategies
State Budget Strategy
Performance report of development plans
Spending reviews, mid term and ex post evaluation,
impact analysis
Programme documents
7-10
years
Policy principles
1 year
Previous
year/period

30. 2. Public Services
100% of Budget costs are
connected to services
3. Service Costing
Cost accounting of services in
Ministries and Agencies. Agencies may
choose between traditional and activity
based costing.
1. Programme budgeting
Structured strategic planning and
budgeting in all Government areas and
Agencies
Unified performance planning and budgeting - Financial Management Information System and
Costing Software available for all Agencies.

31. Better
management
Less strategic
documentsPrioritizing
Efficiency,
dashboards
Performance
levels,
open data
No more
silos
Customer Value
Flexibility
To reduce
administrative burden
Flexibility for resource
management
Quality Management
To increase co-operation
between Ministries
Transparency in
budget planning
Tool for agency
management
Instrument for
policy planning

32. Resources
Costs by economic
content
Personnel data
Time
Performance indicators
Services
Clients
Capital investments
Revenue
Objectives
Activities
SAS Visual Analytics

33. Simple high-level dashboard
Public dashboards
For different management levels
in government agencies and ministries
Integrated data reporting

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35. Strong data governance
Better source data quality
User-friendly dissemination
Personalised view of information
Real-time data mining
Quick and quality decision-making
Reliable information
Quality label for official statistics
High quality of statistics
High-quality indicators with metadata
Real-time information
Faster and simpler information
Globalisation and Big Data
More in-depth information
Low administrative burden
Once-only principle in data collection

36. Statistics
and
data
Data
governance
Metadata
Data
stewards
Value creation (Output)
• Statistics
• Data dissemination
• Algorithms
Main activities (Controls)
• Data protection
• Data quality
• Data life-cycle management
Support activities (Supporters)
• Data architecture
• Data standards
• Metadata and Classifications
Authorisers (Enablers)
• Data stewards
• Statistics Estonia
• EIS, GDPR, Official Statistics Act, Public Information Act
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Change in
process
Change in
rights
Change in
output
Ministry of Economics and
Communication
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Justice
Statistics Estonia
Ministry of Economics and
Communication
Ministry of Justice
Data Protection Inspectorate
Statistics Estonia
State Information System
Authority
Statistics Estonia
Ministry of Economics and
Communication
Data Protection
Inspectorate
Statistics Estonia

41. 99% of information sharing based on web
Web based data collection
Registers
Data sharing: ERP
Currently more than 150 registers
Data sharing from ERPs:
Voluntary;
Based on state ontology;
Tranfer based on XBRL
to:
Estonian Tax Board
Bank of Estonia
Statistics Estonia

42. Data collection
Calculation of taxesPaying taxes Data/Risk analysis Data/Risk reflecting

43. STATISTICS
Incl specific comparisons by
company and industry
RISK ASSESMENT
Tax compliance &
probability of tax control
TAX MORALE TAX DATA

45. DATA
COLLECTION
ETCB gets data
from accounting
softwares or from
third parties
CALCULATION
OF TAXES
ETCB calculates
taxes based on
the received data
E-INVOICE PAYING
TAXES
ETCB sends e-
invoice
to the bank
Money is
transferred to
ETCB
We need data, not
tax returns
How to reduce
administrative
burden?
Data automatically
from the systems
companies already
use

50. … and 5 secretary
generals

54. StateSharedServiceCentre(2013)
Financial
management
Accounting of 156 state agencies
State level accounting
IT systems for financial
management (ERP, Self
Service Portal, e-Invoices)
Grants
Administration
Managing authority for entire
grants system
Implementation of grant
schemes
Reports and payments
Development grants IT system
(SFOS)
HR services
HR data administration and
payroll for 169 state agencies
Central Training Unit
State Claims
Claims from court decision;
Alimony subsidy;
Loans for students;
Loans for land privatization
Public Procurement
Procurement service for 35
state agencies;
Joint procurements

55. Results of Consolidation
Client Satisfaction
8,4 points
34% more
efficient
Serving 2/3 of
central
government

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60. Financial, HR and payroll accounting
services
Public procurements
External finances administration
Sorting the population registry data
(till 31.12.19)
Single implementation service starting
from 2021
Better management data
Central contractor for state real estate
and constructions (incl. renting and
furnishing)
Analysis and planning of real estate
environment
Planning and development of real estate
environment
Better planning of state real estate
resources and finances, coherence with
the strategic planning
ICT support consolidations (~20 000 computer work-places consolidated into 5 IT
Centres

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DNK
ISL
CZE
FIN
NLD
FRA
NOR
SVK
SVN
SWE
AUT
CHE
IRL
BEL
DEU
HUN
POL
GBR
NZL
LUX
AUS
PRT
CAN
ITA
GRC
ESP
JPN
EST
CHL
LTU
LVA
MEX
TUR
USA
KOR
ISR
CRI
ZAF
Total 66+

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