What is the Forum?
Space for cooperation and communication through the establishment of a flexible and permanent relationship framework 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 expansion 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 in its session on April 27, 2021, includes in Component 27 a series of measures and actions for the prevention and fight against tax fraud, among them which includes the promotion of the cooperative relationship.
Thus, progress is made in the development of a cooperative model of relationship between the Tax Agency and taxpayers, materialized in the creation of the Large Companies Forum in 2009, the Forum of Associations and Colleges of Tax Professionals in 2011 and the respective Small Business forums. and Medium Enterprises and Federations and Associations of Self-Employed Workers, established in 2022.
Starting from 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 institutional Administration of the State, whose objective is to promote the model of cooperative relationship, based on transparency and mutual trust, which has been demonstrating that it is 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 included in its Operating Rules. Thus, any issue related to tax and customs matters of common interest to the members of the Forum may be discussed, highlighting the following:
- improvement of the relationship between the State Tax Administration and public companies and other entities of the State institutional sector, and the establishment of fluid and permanent communication channels;
- 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 related to the application of taxes and the customs system in the Institutional Administration of the State.