Speaker: Dr Marc Berenson Senior Lecturer, Russia Institute, King's College London 

"Berenson offers insights that go far beyond tax and tax compliance. Taxes and Trust teaches us that effective governance requires both administrative efficiency and procedural justice."-Sven Steinmo, Robert Schuman Professor, European University InstituteThe new book by Marc Berenson, Taxes and Trust is the first book on taxation to focus on trust and the first work of social science to concentrate on how tax policy actually gets implemented on the ground in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Berenson highlights the nuances of the transitional Ukraine case and explains precisely how and why that 'borderland' country differs from the more ideal-types of coercive Russia and compliance-oriented Poland. Through nine bespoke taxpayer surveys, an unprecedented bureaucratic survey and more than 15 years of qualitative research, the book emphasizes the building and accumulation of trust to transition from a coercive tax state to a compliant one.A brief discussion of the book will be followed by drinks and conversation with the author. Discounted copies of the book will be available for purchase.