On November 21 and 22, the 5th Meeting of Directors of Tax Administrations of the countries of the European Union (EU), TADEUS (Tax ADministration European Union Summit), was held in Malaga. It was attended by the Directors of the Administrations of all EU Member States, and a large representation of DGTAXUD (Directorate General of Taxation and Customs of the European Commission), headed by its Director General.

The Director of the Tax Agency, Soledad Fernández Doctor, hosted the meeting, chairing, together with other members of the Tax Agency's Steering Committee (the Director of the Tax Studies and Statistics Service, Rubén Fernández de Santiago, and the Director of the Financial and Tax Inspection Department, Javier Hurtado Puerta), several of the technical sessions.

During the event, projects such as the implementation of the VAT and VIDA Package, BEFIT, the possible regulation of the cooperation of Eurofisc and the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the measurement of the tax gap or the optimization of the operation of the Directive on administrative cooperation in direct taxation (DAC). The current working groups promoted by TADEUS itself were also presented, on the use of artificial intelligence for tax purposes, digital security and the estimation of administrative cooperation. The second day of the meeting focused on national, European and global projects to improve taxpayer trust and voluntary compliance, including an update on the Trust and Compliance project launched by TADEUS in 2020: https://trustandcompliance.com/

The meeting ended with a small competition in which countries presented their most modern and current projects to improve trust and compliance, which was won by Sweden with its "Generative Artificial Intelligence Test in the Tax Field" and in which the Tax Agency won the third prize for its project on ADIs.

The Directors present at the TADEUS plenary signed the final declaration of the summit and set the next meeting for 2024 in Hungary.