Dmitri Jegorov
Deputy Secretary-General for Tax and Customs Policy, Ministry of Finance, Estonia,
Dmitri Jegorov is the deputy secretary-general for tax and customs policies at the Estonian Ministry of Finance since August 2014. At the ministry, he oversees the work of departments of tax policy and of customs and excise policy and provides for a liaison between the ministry and the tax administration.
Prior to his work at the ministry, for nearly a decade, Dmitri worked for Estonia’s tax administration and, after the merger of the two authorities, for the joint tax and customs board. There he occupied various positions from head of direct taxes division to deputy director-general for core processes, dealing both with tax and customs matters from service to criminal investigation. Before joining the civil service, Dmitri worked as a corporate finance consultant for KPMG.
Dmitri holds an MA degree in economics from University of Tartu in Estonia. He has also undertaken doctoral studies at the Norwegian School of Economics NHH in Bergen where he focused on studying taxpayers’ attitudes and behaviors in relation to earmarked taxes.
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