2018-2020: Two years of TAXEDU in Romania

Time flies! Romania takes stock of TAXEDU activities implemented since the project’s launch in the country in 2018, and looks to the future.

In December 2018, teachers and students joined government officials, tax experts and European Commission representatives in Bucharest to celebrate the country’s launch of the TAXEDU project.

Over the past two years, the portal has become a go-to resource for Romania’s school teachers and students who make use of the portal’s wide range of multilingual educational material – such as games, e-Learning courses and microlearning clips – to learn about tax in its different forms, and the issues associated with it (tax fraud, tax evasion, etc.) in a fun and engaging way.

Building on this momentum, an intensive campaign has been launched in December 2020 within Romania’s Public Finance Ministry and the country’s National Agency for Tax Administration. The aim is to further promote TAXEDU online and via social media (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp).

Another important push to promote tax education activities was the launch of a financial education portal at the end of 2020. TAXEDU is  one of the projects promoted on the portal.

Future plans also include a Summer Camp on Financial Education 2021, with TaxEdu and Taxlandia in its agenda, provided the COVID-19 situation allows for this. The discussions are on-going with the four partners of the Ministry ; the institutions that signed in 2018 the Agreement on financial education . The idea for financial education summer camp, has already been successfully tested.in 2019, introducing 10-13-year-old children to the basic principles of tax and how it affects their lives.