Results of the fight against fraud. In 2007, direct collection from control actions was 5,954 million, 12.1% more than in 2006. Income from voluntary regularizations amounted to 1,480 million euros, 34.9% more than the previous year. In the real estate sector, the debt settled in 2007 amounted to 1,200 million euros, 65% more, and the number of taxpayers inspected increased by 31%. The valuation of money laundering crimes reported to the courts by the Tax Agency in its 2007 investigations reached 1,067 million euros, almost triple that of the previous year.

February 13, 2008. The Secretary of State for Finance and Budgets, Carlos Ocaña, and the general director of the Tax Agency, Luis Pedroche, have presented the results of the first three years of application of the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan, which has collected nearly of 19.4 billion euros. To value this figure, it is enough to point out that the total amount of public investment in infrastructure in the 2008 General State Budget is just over 15,000 million euros.

In 2007, direct collection from control actions, including the reduction of returns, amounted to 5,954 million euros, 12.1% more than in 2006. In addition, collection from voluntary regularizations attributable to the induced effect of the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan increased by 34.9%, up to 1,480 million euros. The number of control actions in 2007 was 271,064.

Therefore, the collection obtained by the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan in 2007 amounts to 7,434 million euros, to which must be added the results of 2005 and 2006, which were 5,526 million euros and 6,407 million euros. respectively.

Fraud control in the real estate sector

The guidelines of the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan favored comprehensive control over all economic activity related to the real estate sector, considering that it can be an important source of fraud. In 2007, 8,501 taxpayers in this sector were inspected, 31% more than in 2006, and a debt of 1,223 million euros was discovered, 65% more than the previous year.

Within the return on real estate capital, the rental declaration has increased significantly thanks, among other measures, to the mandatory inclusion of the cadastral reference number of the properties. In the 2006 personal income tax, rents worth 12,442 million euros were declared, 3,115 million euros more than in the 2003 personal income tax, the last declaration prior to the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan. The number of filers for these returns reaches 1,447,449, 268,000 more filers than in the 2003 personal income tax.

In 2008, the results of more than 80,000 real estate development operations will be analyzed by the Tax Agency after three years of work and information collection on the comprehensive urban development process.

Guarantees for the collection of tax debt

The Tax Fraud Prevention Plan also places emphasis on improving the collection of debt discovered in the fight actions. In this sense, the actions to guarantee the collection of debts have doubled in the last three years, reaching 1,313 in 2007, when in 2004 they were 649. These actions are carried out in a coordinated manner between the Inspection and Collection departments in order to avoid asset stripping by fraudsters.

Fight against money laundering

In 2007, the Tax Agency reported to the Court crimes of money laundering for an amount of 1,067 million euros, as a result of more complex investigative actions in the field of drug trafficking and the underground economy. The 2007 figure represents an increase of almost 200% compared to the previous year thanks to the end of investigations that began in previous years.