On April 23-24, 2015, Lasha Lanchava, Research Fellow at ISET-PI, Education and Social Policy Research Center, participated as a discussant in the workshop titled “How to increase tax compliance – new tools from behavioural economics” organized by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Kiev, Ukraine.
The workshop targeted leading scholars, representatives of Ministries of Finances, tax authorities and NGOs from associated countries. The workshop aimed at collecting state of the art insights from behavioural economics which could be used to stimulate an increase in tax compliance – taking into account country-specific background factors.

During this two-day event Mr. Lanchava also met with Georgian delegation from the Revenue Service and as a result, ISET-PI may enter in a partnership with the Revenue Service and coordinate efforts aimed at increasing tax compliance in Georgia.

As for the workshop, the goals of it were to: (a) identify and discuss the core problems regarding tax compliance faced by E&IA countries, (b) present results from recent field trials on new ways to increase tax compliance in EU Member States, (c) develop, in collaboration with researchers from the field of behavioural economics, new approaches for tax collection adjusted to the contexts of E&IA countries and (d) prepare networks for future field trials to test these new ideas.