On 10.05.2024, a guest lecture for tax officials ‘The role and importance of tax culture in the democratisation of relations between taxpayers and public authorities’ was held within the framework of the Jean Monnet Module project: ‘Building a Sustainable Interest in EU Tax Culture through the Implementation of Educational, Scientific and Communication Outreach Activities Focused on Ukrainian Society’ of the European Union's Erasmus+ Programme: Jean Monnet", 101125984 - TIEU - ERASMUS-JMO-2023-HEI-TCH-RSCH

The speakers of the guest lecture were Iryna Prokopenko, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Tax Administration, Jean Monnet Module Project Manager, and Olha Ivanishyna, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Tax Administration, Project Leader.

Valeriia Budilovska, Deputy Head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Kyiv Region, welcomed the participants and noted that such educational events are extremely important for harmonising relations between taxpayers and the tax service and that one of the strategic goals of the State Tax Service is to create a positive image of the tax authorities of Ukraine as a European-style service with a high level of public trust: the experience of EU countries.

Speakers Iryna Prokopenko and Olga Ivanyshyna also presented the taxpayers with a distance learning course for employees of the State Tax Service and its territorial bodies, which aims to develop theoretical knowledge and practical skills on the best taxation traditions and ways to establish partnerships between tax authorities and taxpayers in the EU countries to improve the level of tax culture in Ukraine.

At the end of the lecture, Hanna Hryshko, Head of the Human Resources Department, took part in the discussion and noted that such a training course would provide advanced training for the officials of the State Tax Service of Ukraine in the field of taxation and tax culture and would help to establish partnerships between taxpayers and tax officials based on the experience of EU countries.

We thank all the participants and look forward to further cooperation with the Main State Tax Service in Kyiv region in the framework of advanced training of civil servants in a remote format.