The Director of FIIAPP, Javier Quintana, and the Head of the International Relations Unit of the Tax Agency, Enrique Sánchez-Blanco Codorniu, closed the week of exchange between Spanish and Latin American tax administrations, which aimed to present the tools for investigation and detection of tax fraud used in France and Spain.
This exchange, within the framework of the EUROsociAL Programme, focused on the situation of the different taxes (Income, VAT, Corporate Tax, Transport Tax) and rates in relation to extensive control. The best ways of using information already available, mostly from third parties or from the taxpayer themselves, for control were analysed. To this end, the importance of the computer applications on which these control procedures are based in order to achieve this in the most effective and efficient way was made clear. One of the greatest challenges lies in the double objective of speeding up refunds without penalising control.

The mass control aims to subject the declarations submitted by taxpayers to control, using information cross-checking and data verification, in order to detect and correct the most repeated tax non-compliances. The tools analyzed during the visit support the investigation and detection of tax fraud as well as the design of strategic lines to combat and prevent it.

Twenty-four officials from the tax administrations of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay participated in the activity, and during their week in Madrid they received contributions from experts from the Tax Agency and the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

This activity is part of the action to promote voluntary compliance with tax obligations, which is coordinated by the FIIAPP Public Finance Technical Unit and executed by a group of Program partners that includes the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) of Spain and the Inter-American Tax Administration Center (CIAT) of Panama, as well as the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IEF) of Spain as a financial operational partner.