What is the Forum?
Space for cooperation and communication through the establishment of a flexible and permanent framework for relations based on the principles of transparency and mutual trust
The Strategic Plan of the Tax Agency 2020 - 2023 includes among its priority lines of action the promotion of the cooperative relationship, considering it an effective tool to achieve the broadening of the tax bases declared by taxpayers, which results in the improvement of the level of voluntary compliance and consequently reduces the level of fraud existing in our country.
Likewise, the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, approved by the Council of Ministers at its meeting on April 27, 2021, includes in Component 27 a series of measures and actions for the prevention and fight against tax fraud, including the promotion of cooperative relationships.
This is a step forward in developing a cooperative model of relations between the Tax Agency and taxpayers, which has been concretised in the creation of the Forum of Large Companies in 2009, the Forum of Associations and Colleges of Tax Professionals in 2011 and the respective forums of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Federations and Associations of Self-Employed Workers, established in 2022.
Based on this framework, the Forum of Companies, Institutions and Public Entities has been established as a permanent space for meeting and dialogue between the Tax Agency and public companies and other entities of the State's institutional Administration, whose objective is to promote the cooperative relationship model, based on transparency and mutual trust, which has proven to be an effective instrument for achieving voluntary compliance with tax obligations by citizens, the ultimate goal of the Tax Administration.
The operation and possible topics to be discussed in the Forum are set out in its Operating Rules. Thus, any issue related to tax and customs matters of common interest to the members of the Forum may be addressed, including the following:
- improvement of the relationship between the State Tax Administration and public companies and other entities of the State's institutional sector, and the establishment of channels of fluid and permanent communication;
- simplification and facilitation of compliance with tax obligations;
- studies of regulatory changes and adaptation to them;
- evaluation of the internal performance of organizations in relation to the application of the tax and customs system;
- specific issues relating to the application of taxes and the customs system in the Institutional Administration of the State.