Retraining and improvement center

The center of retraining and improving professional skills of the state tax service staff of Ukraine carries out functions of the main educational and scientific – methodical establishment on improving professional skills of the state tax service staff of Ukraine.

The Center's structure includes:
1. Educational-organizational department.
2. Educational-methodical department.
3. Informational-methodical department consisting of laboratory of computer systems operation and software laboratory.

Anatoliy I. NakaiThe center is a complete unique complex consisting of two educational-inhabited buildings with general area of 8,6 thousand sq. m.
The director of the Center of retraining and improving professional skills of the state tax service staff of Ukraine is Anatoliy I. Nakai, the state tax service advisor of rank II, the distinguished teacher of national education of Ukraine, the honorary worker of the state tax service of Ukraine.

The primary goals of the Center are:
 – Retraining and improving professional skills of executives and specialists of the state tax service;
 – Improving of civil employees' professional skills;
 – Retraining and improving of the teaching staff professional skills;
 – Carrying out of researches in the taxation sphere, improvement of the staff professional skills;
 – Scientific – methodical and informational provision of educational process, preparation and publication of educational and methodical materials;
 – Granting of services on improvement of professional skills on a paid basis, consulting and expert help to legal and physical persons;
 – Gathering, ordering and processing of information materials on tax policy questions and management of educational process;
 – Granting the advisory – methodical and program-methodical help to local bodies of the state tax service on questions of improvement of the staff professional skills.

According to the primary goals the Center:
 – together with structural divisions of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine determines directions, contents, forms, methods and means of improving the state tax service workers' professional skills;
 – together with corresponding structural divisions of the STA of Ukraine develops and introduces educational-methodical materials on questions of professional skills improvement;
 – organizes and carries out educational process on improvement of professional skills, scientific – methodical and scientific – practical seminars and conferences, symposia with participation of domestic and foreign specialists;
 – involves in lecturing highly skilled specialists of higher educational institutions of accreditation levels I-IV, executives and workers of the state tax service bodies, ministries and departments, foreign experts on a contract basis;
 – cooperates with domestic and foreign educational institutions, organizations and establishments in the field of improving the tax service workers' professional skills .

During existence of the Center its workers in interaction with corresponding STA structural divisions, National University of the state tax service, with assistance and support of representatives of the USA Ministry of Finance, Agencies the USA on the international development, employees of advisory firm "rents Group LLC" educational-methodical provision for improving the state tax service workers' professional skills under programs of 12 courses has been developed: "Taxes and tax collections", "Taxation of foreign trade activities", "Local taxes and tax collections", "Audit of legal and physical persons' incomes", "Compulsory collecting of taxes", "Introduction of information systems of the STS of Ukraine", "Account and reporting", "Tax management", "Legal provision of the STS of Ukraine bodies", "Economic analysis in the taxation system", "Work with tax payers in the tax service bodies activity", "Direct and indirect taxes".

Annually 150-200 teachers take part in educational process: the administrative board and leading specialists of the STA of Ukraine of Kyiv and Kyiv region, Supreme arbitration court of Ukraine, Ministry of ecological safety, National University of internal affairs and National University of the state tax service of Ukraine. The center develops cooperation with tax inspections of Kyiv and Kyiv region where students of the Center study an operational experience with tax payers, and also exchange with their own experience.
Retraining and improving professional skills in the Center is carried out in the internal, remote or mixed forms.

The basic forms of the educational process organization are:
 – Educational classes;
 – Fulfilling of individual tasks;
 – Independent work;
 – Practical training;
 – Control actions.

The basic kinds of improving professional skills in the Center are:
 – Training under professional programs of professional skills improvement;
 – Thematic short-term seminars;
 – Thematic permanent seminars.

Improvement of professional skills under professional programs is carried out no less than once per five years at transfer to a personnel reserve, assignment for the supreme post, before the next certification of a civil employee, and for the specialists for the first time accepted to public service, during the first year of their work.

The main task of thematic short-term seminars is to study laws of Ukraine, decrees and orders of the President, decisions of the Cabinet of Ukraine, orders, instructions and other normative documents of the STA Ukraine, and also achievements of the management theory and practice, the best practices of work. The term of training at such seminars does not exceed five days.

Thematic permanent seminars are carried out under programs and plans which are developed by the Center on the basis of typical programs and the recommendations prepared by educational – methodical council at the STA of Ukraine, by central administrative boards, departments of the STA of Ukraine. The term of training is determined by the program of a seminar. Such seminars come to an end by passing credit-tests or submitting abstracts by students.

According to professional programs of professional skills improvement students of the Center can pass training in the state tax service bodies, higher educational institutions, other establishments and organizations.
During the educational process the following kinds of classes are used: lectures, seminars, practical auditorium and exit classes, discussions, business games, analyses of concrete situations, an exchange of operational experience, thematic meetings, "a round table" conversations, group and individual consultations.

To define a level of the Center students' knowledge on professional programs of professional skills improvement and programs of thematic seminars their testing and certification is carried out. Students, who have completely executed the professional program and have passed certification, receive the certificate of the state sample.

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