Conference Agenda

DAY 0 Tuesday, 15 October 2019 Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi 15.00 – 20.00 REGISTRATION

Venue: Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi (0 floor) 16.00 – 19.00 Set-up of the exhibition area

Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor) 18.00 – 18.30 Briefing for speakers, panellists and moderators

Venue: Meeting Room 3 (2 floor) 19.30 – 22.30 WELCOME RECEPTION hosted by Georgia Revenue Service

Venue: “Xeme” Restaurant at the Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi (31 floor)

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DAY 1 Wednesday, 16 October 2019 Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi 08.00 – 19.00 REGISTRATION

Venue: Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi (0 floor) 08.00 – 08.30 Briefing for speakers, panellists and moderators

Venue: Meeting Room 3 (2 floor) 09.00 – 09.30 OPENING CEREMONY (Plenary)

Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor)

09.00 – 09.10 Official Openning Vakhtang Lashkaradze, Director General, Georgia Revenue Service František Imrecze, Executive Secretary of IOTA

09.10 – 09.30 Introductory and Keynote Addresses

Lasha Khutsishvili, Deputy Minister of Finance of Georgia Georgios Pitsilis, Governor of the Independent Authority for

Public Revenue of the Hellenic Republic - IOTA President (video speech)

09.30 – 11.00 SESSION 1 – TAX COMPLIANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Plenary)

Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor) Moderator: František Imrecze, Executive Secretary of IOTA

09.30 – 09.50 Keynote speech: The data journey: from reporting obligations to advanced analytics Cristian Largeanu, European Commission

09.50 – 10.10 Keynote speech: Four paradigm shifts in managing compliance

Gabriel Bellenger, Accenture 10.10 – 10.30 Keynote speech: Creation and development of innovation

infrastructure in Georgia Mariam Lashkhi, Georgian Innovations and Technology Agency

10.30 – 10.45 Debate, Q&A Session

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10.45 – 11.00 A COMMEMORATIVE PHOTOGRAPH

Venue: lobby of the Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi 11.00 – 11.30 NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor) 11.30 – 13.00 SESSION 2 – EXHIBITION OF NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS FOR TAX COMPLIANCE Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor)

11.30 – 11.35 Opening of the Exhibition

František Imrecze, Executive Secretary of IOTA 11.35 – 13.00 Demonstrations, hands-on activities, meet & greet

Exhibitors, participants 13.00 – 14.15 LUNCH BREAK

Venue: „Sonnet” Restaurant (1 floor) 14.15 – 16.00 SESSION 3 – PREVENTION OF TAX EVASION AND TAX FRAUD Parallel sessions Title/Venue Parallel session 3.1

ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS & REAL-TIME REPORTING SYSTEMS Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor)

Parallel session 3.2

USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TO PREVENT ERROR AND FRAUD Venue: Meeting Room 4 (2 floor)

Parallel session 3.3

MONITORING OF MOVEMENT OF GOODS OF HIGH FISCAL RISK Venue: Meeting Room 8 (2 floor)

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Parallel session 3.1 ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS & REAL-TIME REPORTING SYSTEMS Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor) Moderator: Øivind Strømme, Norwegian Tax Administration

14.15 – 14.40 Presentation: Innovative Digital Solutions in State Revenue Committee of Armenia: Monitoring center, BIG DATA analytics system Meri Sakanyan and Narine Harutyunyan, State

Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia

14.40 – 15.05 Presentation: Electronic Invoice in Latin America. Compliance and implementation Raul Zambrano, Inter-American Center of Tax

Administrations (CIAT)

15.05 – 15.30 Presentation: Real time data = real time effect? Online Invoicing System in Hungary Szabolcs Czöndör, National Tax and Customs

Administration of Hungary and Csaba Kocsis, i-Cell Mobilsoft

15.30 – 15.45 Presentation: SAF-T - a Tool for e-Audit and Compliance Ana Mascarenhas, Portuguese Tax and Customs

Authority

15.45 – 16.00 Q & A session

Parallel session 3.2 USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TO PREVENT ERROR AND FRAUD Venue: Meeting Room 4 (2 floor)Moderator: František Imrecze, IOTA Secretariat

14.15 – 14.45 Presentation: Blockchain revolution in Georgia Mariam Turashvili, Georgian National Agency of

Public Registry

14.45 – 15.15 Presentation: The end of VAT fraud – using blockchain technology to combat VAT fraud Lucas Mul, Summitto

15.15 – 16.00 Q & A session

Parallel session 3.3 MONITORING OF MOVEMENT (TRANSPORTATION) OF GOODS OF HIGH FISCAL RISK Venue: Meeting Room 8 (2 floor)Moderator: John Donners, the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration

14.15 – 14.40 Presentation: Electronic Waybill of Transportation Samson Uridia, Georgia Revenue Service

14.40 – 15.05 Presentation: SENT - effective tool for combating crime Anetta Janda-Brzezinska, Ministry of Finance of the

Republic of Poland

15.05 – 15.30 Presentation: Risk analysis of public road trade László Kelemen, National Tax and Customs

Administration of Hungary

15.30 – 16.00 Q & A session

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16.00 – 16.30 NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor) 16.30 – 17.30 SESSION 4 – STRATEGIES TO TACKLE EMERGING RISKS POSED BY

NEW TECHNOLOGY (Panel Debate) Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor)

Moderator: Duncan Onduru, CATA

16.30 – 17.30 Panellists: Antonino Virgillito, Italian Revenue Agency Maqbool Lalljee, Bureau van Dijk, A Moody´s Analytics Company JB Hillman, Vertex

18.30 – 19.00 ORGANISED DEPARTURE by buses from the hotel to the place of

Gala Dinner Venue: Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi (0 floor)

20.00 – 22.30 GALA DINNER hosted by the Georgia Revenue Service

Venue: „Funicular” restaurant

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DAY 2 Thursday, 17 October 2019 Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi

08.00 – 18.00 REGISTRATION

Venue: Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi (0 floor) 09.00 – 10.30 SESSION 5 – EXHIBITION OF NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS FOR TAX COMPLIANCE (cont.) Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor)

09.00 – 10.30 Demonstrations, hands-on activities, meet & greet

Exhibitors, participants 10.30 – 11.00 NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor) 11.00 – 12.45 SESSION 6 - E-SERVICES FOR COMPLIANCE SIMPLIFICATION Parallel sessions Title/Venue Parallel session 6.1

DIGITAL TAX FILING AND PRE-FILLED TAX RETURNS Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor)

Parallel session 6.2

e-TAX PORTALS Venue: Meeting Room 4 (2 floor)

Parallel session 6.3

AI ENABLED VIRTUAL TAXPAYER ASSISTANCE Venue: Meeting Room 8 (2 floor)

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Parallel session 6.1 DIGITAL TAX FILING AND PRE-FILLED TAX RETURNS Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor) Moderator: Eugenijus Soldatkovas, IOTA Secretriat

11.00 – 11.25 Presentation: Short Term Rentals through Digital Platforms: register, declare, file and comply electronically Apostolos Boutos, Independent Authority for Public

Revenue of Greece

11.25 – 11.50 Presentation: Digital Tax Filing and Pre-filled Tax Returns Geir Hegre Romundset, Norwegian Tax Administration

11.50 – 12.15 Presentation: COTS system solution for digital tax filing Sanna Kuuri, Finnish Tax Administration

12.15 – 12.45 Q & A session

Parallel session 6.2 e-TAX PORTALS Venue: Meeting Room 8 (2 floor) Moderator: Erling Andersen, Danish Customs and Tax Administration

11.00 – 11.25 Presentation: e-Tax portal of Georgia Revenue Service Lily Tsverava, Georgia Revenue Service

11.25 – 11.50 Presentation: E-service of tax behaviour ratings Maksim Baranov, Estonian Tax and Customs Board

11.50 – 12.15 Presentation: One-click registration: state registration has never been easier! Alakbar Mammadov, Ministry of Taxes of the

Republic of Azerbaijan

12.15 – 12.45 Q & A session

Parallel session 6.3 AI ENABLED VIRTUAL TAXPAYER ASSISTANCE Venue: Meeting Room 8 (2 floor) Moderator: Sabina Bendas, National Agency for Fiscal Administration of Romania

11.00 – 11.25 Presentation: ’Skatti’ - digital our co-worker - Experiences from developing a chatbot using AI Helene de Faire, Swedish Tax Agency

11.25 – 11.50 Presentation: Virtual Digital Assistant Pilot Project John Barron, Irish Revenue

11.50 – 12.15 Presentation: Digital Prompts Michael Charles, UK Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs

12.15 – 12.45 Q & A session

12.45 – 14.15 LUNCH BREAK

Venue: „Sonnet” Restaurant (1 floor)

14.00 Closure of the exhibition Venue: Grand Royal Ballroom (-1 floor)

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14.15 – 15.15 SESSION 7 – TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN TAX COMPLIANCE

– CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (Plenary) Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor)

Moderator: James Harrison, Fast Enterprises

14.15 – 14.30 Presentation: Compliance by design - Easy, secure and safe business systems Eric Thorén, Swedish Tax Agency

14.30 – 14.45 Presentation: One-Stop secure digital space (ENSU)

David Gilles, General Directorate of Public Finances of France 14.45 – 15.15 Panel Debate

Eric Thorén, Swedish Tax Agency David Gilles, General Directorate of Public Finances of France

15.15 – 16.00 SESSION 8 – TECHNICAL DEMO OF THE DIGITAL TAX

COMPLIANCE SOLUTION (Plenary) Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor)

15.15 – 15.20 Announcement of voting results for the best exhibited digital tax

compliance solution (Exhibition Award) František Imrecze, Executive Secretary of IOTA

15.20 – 16.00 Technical Demo of District Tax Officer’s android application

Awarded Exhibitor – Georgia Revenue Service 16.00 – 16.30 NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

Venue: Congress Hall pre-function area (2 floor) 16.30 – 17.00 SESSION 8 – CLOSING CEREMONY (Plenary)

Venue: Congress Hall (2 floor) 16.30 – 17.00 Final remarks and closure of Conference

František Imrecze, Executive Secretary of IOTA

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