Fiscal Education The Italian experience

La Paz 27 July, 2015La Paz 27 July, 2015

«Fisco e Scuola» The project

One of the main aims of the Italian Revenue Agency is

to promote the culture of tax law to emphasize the importance of citizenship contribution for the provision of public services.

The world of school is certainly one of the places most appropriate to convey such message, as shown by the synergy developed during the collaboration between the Italian Revenue Agency and educational institutions.

«Fisco e Scuola» The project

Since 2002 the regional departments and the local

offices of the Italian Revenue Agency are involved in the promotion of meetings and training seminars about tax in the schools.

The project “Fisco e Scuola” was born in 2004 to strengthen and make more effective the training intervention, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Education and the Italian Revenue Agency.

Since 2004, our officials have made more than 15.000 meetings with students of all ages.

«Fisco e Scuola» Memorandum of understanding

With the first Memorandum of understanding between

the Ministry of Education and the Italian Revenue Agency were suggested the guidelines that regulate the activities of both institutions, leaving the departments on the territory to adopt the forms of communication most appropriate (e.g. visits to departments, meetings with officials, seminars, interdisciplinary projects).

«Fisco e Scuola» Memorandum of understanding

The successful experience and evaluation of the

benefits led the two institutions to continue the project.

On 15 October 2013 was signed the new Memorandum of understanding, valid for 3 years, which confirms the commitment of the Ministry and the Agency to work together to develop a sense of civic responsibility and social inclusion of young people.

«Fisco e Scuola» Teaching materials

The material is published on the website “Entrate… in classe”, accessible from the Agency website.

Over the years the offices of the Agency, in collaboration with schools, have developed several educational materials to support classroom activities (e.g. brochures, stories, games) which simplify the access of children to such a complex issue as taxation and constitutional principles forming the basis of our tax system.

«Fisco e Scuola» The website “Entrate… in classe”

http://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/wps/content/nsilib/nsi/agenzia/agenzia+comunica/fisco_scuola

The website was realized by the Italian Revenue

Agency to achieve two important goals:

• make the world of taxation more accessible not only to students, but also to parents and teachers

• promote the project “Fisco e Scuola”

«Fisco e Scuola» Educational kit

The Italian Revenue Agency has developed the educational kit, called "Together for the tax law”, in order to support the officers during the first contact with educational institutions.

The kit contains a poster (to be exhibited in the classroom), 20 leaflets, 20 publications and a DVD (cartoon or movie) with Pag and Tax, two "original" characters who lead the children on the path of civic education tax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjx7PGPS4nU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmu_yYONdRg

«Fisco e Scuola» Educational kit

There are two versions of the kit, which differ in the level of difficulty of contents: Module 1 for primary school, the Module 2 for secondary schools.

Module 1 explains the foundations of civilized life to children to make them understand the importance of compliance, including tax, for the functioning of society.

Module 2 explains the principles of the Italian Constitution, which form the basis of our tax system and clarifies the role and the functions of the Italian Revenue Agency.

«Fisco e Scuola» Declaration of intent for tax law

In June the Italian Revenue Agency has also signed

the “Declaration of intent for the tax law as an element of economic growth and social development " promoted by the Ministry of Education with the involvement of 14 other agencies, including the Ministry of Economy and the Financial Police.

The goal is to share experiences about the issues of economics, law , finance and savings.

«Fisco e Scuola» Upcoming developments

In this phase of the project may be useful to combine new initiatives that strengthen the message about the legitimacy of taxes.

One idea might be to involve students into a national contest on the topic of tax law, developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.

Now we already have regional contests http://basilicata.agenziaentrate.it/site.php?id=3883

«Fisco e Scuola» Upcoming developments

Another goal is the use of social network, as YouTube

and Twitter , to spread the message among the kids.