ISET continues its student policy paper seminar series for the institute's (now graduated) second-year students. This time, Tatia Sosiashvili, Megi Tsikoridze, Nino Aladashvili, and Sopo Basilidze presented their joint paper on tax administration in Georgia. Their project, entitled “Current Challenges in Tax Administration (VAT)”, was supervised by Eric Livny, President of ISET and the ISET Policy Institute, and Sophiko Skhirtladze, an ISET Resident Faculty member and head of the Private Sector Development Policy Research Center.
The students explained that tax administration is an important tool for the government to implement and enforce tax laws and receive mandates by law. It includes the management of taxpayers’ registration, including the detection of non-registration and false registration; the processing of tax returns, withholdings and third-party information; the veriļ¬cation or examination of the correctness and completeness of received information; the process of enforced debt collection, and the handling of administrative appeals and complaints.
On May 23, ISET-PI hosted the launch ceremony of ReforMeter, which was attended by representatives of Government institutions, NGOs and international organizations. Welcoming remarks were made by Shamennna K. Gall, the acting Deputy Economic Growth Offices of the US Embassy, and Bruno Balvanera, the EBRD Director for the Caucasus, Moldova and Belarus.
ReforMeter is an online platform which generates reform progress analysis for policy making and public dialogue, and builds trust between the government, the private sector and the general public. The project is implemented by the ISET Policy Institute and financed by USAID G4G.