The fourth Meeting of the CIAT Tax Studies and Research Network was held on September 29 and 30, 2014 in Montevideo, Uruguay, under the title “Behavioral Economics and Tax Administration: New approaches to analyzing tax compliance”. This event was co-organized with the DGI of Uruguay and was sponsored by the GIZ-German Cooperation.

This meeting brought together delegates from 13 CIAT member countries and representatives of the IDB and the World Bank.

The main speaker of the meeting was the renowned Professor Gareth Myles, Director of the Tax Administration Research Center of the United Kingdom and Professor at the University of Exeter. He discussed the shortcomings of traditional models or standards that analyze the tax noncompliance phenomenon and the new contributions of behavioral economics; as well as audit strategies with economic modeling and simulations.

Official photograph of the event

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