First experiences and prospects of the Cooperative Compliance Programme

Mutual trust, understanding and transparency. 
First experiences and prospects of the
Cooperative Compliance Programme 

Kozminski University with the European Commission (DG Reform, TAIEX-TSI) and with the Ministry of Finance Republic of Poland are pleased to invite you to a conference: 

Mutual trust, understanding and transparency. First experiences and prospects of the Cooperative Compliance Programme 

On July 1, 2020, the Polish National Revenue Administration (NRA) has launched a pilot Cooperative Compliance Programme for large taxpayers in Poland.   

 

The Cooperative Compliance Programme is a form of cooperation between the National Revenue Administration and large entities (50 mln EUR), based on mutual - trust, - understanding, - transparency beyond statutory obligations.  

The Cooperation Program seeks to transform the relationship between the revenue authority and its large business taxpayers with the aim to create a better enabling environment for economic growth and faster legal certainty to improve taxpayers’ compliance.

The conference will be dedicated to summarizing the evaluation of the Cooperation Compliance Programme (CCP) pilot phase, as well as outlining the directions for the future development of this program. 

PILOT COOPERATIVE COMPLIANCE PROGRAMME EVALUATION

Kozminski University - as an independent research institution - conducted an evaluation of the Cooperation Compliance Programme (CCP) pilot on behalf of the European Commission from 2021 to 2023.  

The evaluation of the Cooperation Compliance Programme (CCP) project was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, managed by the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support. The Beneficiary of the Project is the Polish Ministry of Finance 

The Report presented during the event was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.  

Objectives:  Building on the ongoing internal work of the NRA, the objective of the project is to create a monitoring framework to allow for formative and ex-post evaluation at the end of the pilot and to feed lessons learnt and recommendations for improvements for full roll out of the Cooperation Programme. 

Main activities

  • 3 formative evaluations in the course of the pilot phase of the Cooperation Programme,
  • the final summative (ex-post) evaluation,
  • mixed method approach to each of the four planned studies: 

- qualitative interviews (IDI; Individual In-depth Interviews), - CAWI surveys (Computer-Assisted Web Interview), - an analysis of key performance data, - workshops.

  • areas to be assessed in the evaluation process: 

- regulation of tax obligations („hard facts”), - relations between tax administration and large companies taking part in the cooperation program (surveys, IDI’s, workshops), - implementation of the pilot Cooperation Program (IDIs, surveys, SWOT analysis, workshops) 

 

SPEAKERS

Phd Sabina Kołodziej

Psychologist and economist, assistant professor in the Department of Economic Psychology. Expert at the Tax System Department, Ministry of Finance (2018-2021). President of the Academic Association of Economic Psychology (ASPE, 2017-2023), member of international scientific organizations (e.g. IAREP, SJDM). Research focused on psychological determinant of tax compliance, as well as economic socialization. Author of a scientific monograph "Between reluctance and duty. "On the motivational attitudes of taxpayers" („Między niechęcią a obowiązkiem. O postawach motywacyjnych podatników”).

Phd Łukasz Markiewicz

Economic psychologist, Head of the Department of Economic Psychology, Kozminski University. The Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission grantee. Holder of the Australian Government's Endeavour Research Fellowship.. Visiting researcher at Columbia Business School in New York, and at School of Economics - University of Sydney, Australia. Extensive business experience in the market research industry (GfK Poland, AC Nielsen, PBSDGA) as a quantitative researcher. Research focused on the decision-making process, with particular emphasis on the risk-taking process and moral decisions. 

 

Professor Aneta Hryckiewicz
prof. Aneta Hryckiewicz-Gontarczyk

Economist, Head of the Economic Institute for Empirical Analysis. She is a Professor of Kozminski University and since 2022 has been affiliated with the University of Oxford, where she conducts research on the ongoing changes in the financial sector and the risks associated with them. From 2019 to 2023, she was a member of the Committee on Financial Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences. 
 She earned her PhD from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and her habilitation from the Warsaw School of Economics. She has won a number of national and international research competitions; she has been awarded research stays at Wharton Business School and Oxford University. Author of more than 60 scientific papers. Her research interests include modeling processes in the financial sector, financial crises and risk management of financial institutions. She represented Poland in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) by participating in a number of international projects. 

PhD Olha Zadorozhna

Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Empirical Analysis at Kozminski University. She received her doctoral degree from Bocconi University. Her research interests include economic and political institutions and their resilience to shocks. She is working on several international projects studying polarization, sanctions, and economic and social resilience to crises. Olha also studies the resilience of financial markets and their responses to armed conflicts. She participates in several international research projects funded by EU Horizon, ERA-NET, National Science Center, and National Center for Research and Development. 

 

Anna Sobierajska - Sokół

Director of the Department for Large Business - Ministry of Finance.
Graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lodz. Since the beginning of her professional path, she has been associated with tax administration. Since 2014, she has held managerial positions. At the Ministry of Finance since 2020, she supervised, among other things, the handling and analysis of MDR tax scheme information. 
Certified tax advisor. Lecturer at the National School of Taxation. She graduated from the Academy of Management in Public Administration at KSAP.
Awarded the Badge of Honor for Merit to Public Finance of the Republic of Poland in 2022.

Joanna Makarowska

Deputy Director of the Department for Large Business, at Ministry of Finance. She has worked in the financial sector for more than 31 years. Since 2018 in the government administration, responsible for working with Polish and foreign investors to intensify their investment involvement in Poland and also for improving relations between investors and representatives of the central administration. She oversaw the completeness and effectiveness of standards (including product standards), processes and procedures for sales and service to entrepreneurs. Established lasting business relationships with strategic partners, in particular: business environment institutions. Responsible for supporting investor service units in preparing and implementing solutions to investors' problems. Since 2021 she has been associated with the Ministry of Finance where she oversees tasks related to the evaluation of the  Cooperative Compliance Programme pilot and the rules of operation of the Cooperative Compliance Programme, as well as cooperation with other institutions in the field of tax support for investors and initiatives to promote investing in Poland. 

Timoleon Angelos Christodoulopoulos

Timoleon Angelos Christodoulopoulos is a research and teaching associate in the area of international tax law and global tax policy at the Global Tax Policy Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business. His areas of research include cooperative compliance, digitalisation of tax administrations, tax treaty law and EU tax law. Timoleon has experience as tax advisor on varied cross-border transactions of multinational clients active in the industries of technology, media and telecommunications, banking & insurance as well as alternative investments. He holds an LL.M. in International Tax Law from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), an LL.M. in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and an LLB in Law from Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH).

Daniel Simon Dallhammer

Daniel Simon Dallhammer is a PhD student at the WU Tax Law Technology Center and the Global Tax Policy Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He holds an M.Sc. in Accounting and Taxation from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany and an LL.M. in International Tax Law and Digitalisation from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He has been working in the tax department of Siemens AG since 2016, focusing on international taxation, tax technology and tax compliance. His research focuses on cooperative compliance, tax control frameworks and the use of technology to identify, mitigate and audit tax risks. He is vice-chair of the “Tax Control Environment” working group of the Institute for Digitalisation in Tax Law (IDSt).

ABOUT CONFERENCE

PARTICIPATION OPTIONS:

•    in-person participation at Kozminski University in Warsaw, •    streaming of the event (passive participation).

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: •    sessions 1 & 2 will be held in Polish (on-spot participants will have the option of simultaneous translation into English), •    session 3 will be held in English (on-spot participants will have the option of simultaneous translation into Polish).

CONFERENCE AGENDA

•    9:40 Arrival of participants [for onsite participation] – Connections of participants, technical verifications [for online participation] 

•    10:00 – 10:20 Conference opening byprof. Grzegorz Mazurek (Rector of Kozminski University) Anna Sobierajska - Sokół (Director of the Department for Large Business, Ministry of Finance) Gillian Smith (Policy Officer, the Directorate-General for Structural Reform, Komisja Europejska)  

Presentations session 1: •    10:20 – 10:40 Facts about the "Cooperative Compliance Programme" in Poland. Anna Sobierajska - Sokół (Director of the Department for Large Business, Ministry of Finance) •    10:40 – 11:20 Evaluation of the "Cooperative Compliance Programme" in Poland – Part 1  dr Sabina Kołodziej (Kozminski University) dr Łukasz Markiewicz (Kozminski University)

•    11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break

Presentations session 2: •    11:40 – 12.20 Evaluation of the "Cooperative Compliance Programme" in Poland – part 2 prof. Aneta Hryckiewicz-Gontarczyk (Kozminski University) dr Olha Zadorozhna (Kozminski University)

Discussion panel 1: •    12:20 – 13:10 First-Hand Experiences - Representatives of Companies with signed agreement (Cooperative Compliance Programme):  Moderator: Pilewski Piotr, economic and financial press journalist Panelist: •    Barbara Fazan (Budimex S.A.) •    Lidia Jułga (POLOmarket Sp. z o.o.) •    Mariusz Kaczmarek (Cedrob S.A) •    Łukasz Żak (Philip Morris Polska Distribution Sp. z o.o.)

•    13:10 – 14:30 Lunch

Presentations session 3: •    14:30 – 15:00 The Future of the "Cooperative Compliance Programme" in Poland  Joanna Makarowska (Deputy Director of the Department for Large Business, Ministry of Finance)

Discussion panel 2: •    15:00 – 15:50 Bridge between theory and practice.  Overcoming barriers and direction of change Moderator: Pilewski Piotr, economic and financial press journalist Panelist: •    Anna Sobierajska – Sokół (Department for Large Business, Ministry of Finance) •    Joanna Makarowska (Department for Large Business, Ministry of Finance) •    Dorota Bokszczanin (PWC)  •    Michał Borowski (CRIDO) •    Michał Goj (EY Tax)

•    15:50 – 16:10 Coffee break

Presentations session 4: "Cooperative Compliance Programme" in the European Context •    16:10 – 16:25 Multilateral Cooperative Compliance: Enhancing Tax Certainty across the borders  Timoleon Angelos Christodoulopoulos (Vienna University of Economics and Business) •    16:25 – 16:40 Tax Control Framework: An essential feature to provide a justified trust between tax administration and taxpayer in the cooperative compliance approach Daniel Simon Dallhammer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)  •    16:40 – 17:00 The role of effective communication  Katleen Den Roover (Belgian National Revenue Administration) Kristel Van den Broeck (Belgian National Revenue Administration)   •    17:00 – 17:10 Q&A session  

Conference closing •    17:10 Closing remarks by Gillian Smith (the Directorate-General for Structural Reform, European Commission)

REGISTRATION & TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

The conference was partially funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, managed by the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support. The Beneficiary of the Project is the Polish Ministry of Finance.

Thanks to the suport of TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument of the European Commission) participation in the event is free of charge for attendees registered before Friday, 19 January 2024. Lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day at no cost, though registration is limited. Therefore, we encourage early registration.  

TRANSPORTATION AND ACCOMMODATION

Participants attending in person are invited to the Kozminski University Auditorium, Building C (Street Jagiellońska 57/59, 03-301 Warsaw).

A map of how to get there can be found here.

Directions: •    trams 18 and 20, as well as bus line 509 (Batalionu Platerówek stop). •    by car: free parking is available for guests.

For participants from outside Warsaw, we recommend staying in hotels

Accommodation costs are the responsibility of the participants.

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