Senior Adviser of the U.S. treasury and USAID, Professor from Oregano University Charles Morgan Strom, who played an enormous role for tax system reform in Georgia, visited to Guram Tavartkiladze Teaching University on May 4, 2011.
He was a member of Barents Group. In 2002-2007 Mr. Strom led the projects for improvement of business environment and tax administration in Georgia.
With the help of his recommendation, the necessary procedures and terms for starting business were considerably simplified and according to the results of World Bank research, in the parameters of business starting Georgia moved from the 112th to the 12th place and was considered the world’s most successful project.
The meeting with the students was opened by GTTU Rector, Professor Giorgi Matiashvili and he spoke about the great role that Mr. Strom played in the tax system reforms of Georgia. He also noted that Mr. Strom was the first foreign expert awarded with order of honor of Georgia.
The subject of the public lecture was “planning of the main instrument of tax administration in the developing countries”.
The students were interested how works tax service in the U.S.A. Mr. Strom answered the questions, spoke about the tax system planning in post-Soviet countries and emphasized the European legislation in the taxation field.
The lecture was attended by the students from the faculty of business administration of GTTU.
