Bulgaria brings tax education to schools

Since the launch of TAXEDU in 2017, Bulgaria has been promoting tax lessons as an official part of the school curriculum. Now it’s time to celebrate achievements.

Thousands of students in Bulgaria have been learning about tax education with specially designed lessons incorporated into the regular curriculum. Measuring its impact is now the next step.

In 2020, the country’s school officials will evaluate the results. They will assess how tax education curriculum has benefited classrooms nationwide. This is a natural step following three years since the country’s launch of the TAXEDU portal in Bulgaria.

The TAXEDU portal’s linguistic diversity has certainly helped the country’s contribution to the fiscal education of the next generation of European taxpayers. Nearly all the material and resources available on the portal is also available in Bulgarian.

 
Overall, the promotion of TAXEDU remains a priority for Bulgaria. The country’s teachers are actively encouraged to make maximum use of the TAXEDU portal by taking inspiration to prepare and tailor their lessons on tax education. To facilitate this process, Bulgarian officials will ensure the national tax education portal contains ample references to TAXEDU, so that users can easily navigate between sites.

Movie-making for the classroom
Audio-visual activities top Bulgaria’s list of priorities to make tax education attractive to the next generation of taxpayers. The production of a series of diverse videos is underway with the aim of streaming them in the classrooms.

Bulgaria will also work on disseminating short videos (with subtitles) among opinion leaders with the aim of activating the school community and enhancing the public’s engagement towards tax education. 

In addition, communication campaigns targeting Bulgarian youth will be launched. These too will be subsequently evaluated in order to measure their successful impact and optimise future activities.