Tbilisi. On September 26, Economic Policy Research Center held presentation of the project - www.priceofthestate.ge. The Price of the State is a new, innovative project implemented by Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC), implemented in the framework of the East-West Management Institute’s (EWMI) Policy, Advocacy, and Civil Society Development in Georgia (G-PAC) Program, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Web-page provides a comprehensive tool for giving the information that is scattered around the web-sites of different ministries and other governmental organizations, or even is not available without asking the Ministry of Finance for providing the information to you. The data is given in a systemized way that coordinates and harmonizes the data for a common user.

"In Georgia, much like elsewhere, a taxpayer is not only an employee or an employer with an income tax obligation, but rather any consumer in the economy, and therefore virtually every citizen. Georgian taxpayers are subject to a complex taxation scheme at almost every instance of economic transaction, including the so called indirect taxes paid while making purchases. However, they remain practically unaware of the sums that are transferred to the state budget from their pockets, not to mention how this money is further allocated".

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