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The Government maintains the effort in the fight against tax fraud

New measures to prevent tax fraud. The Tax Fraud Prevention Plan, which was launched in 2005, has resulted in twelve euros being collected for every euro spent on fraud prevention this year, double the figure for 2004. The aim is to continue with the measures that are already in place and to update the Plan by incorporating new lines of action, mainly in the shadow economy and taxpayer assistance. The Plan update is now available for public information and open to suggestions from social sectors.

20 November 2008. The Secretary of State for Finance and Budgets, Carlos Ocaña, and the Director General of the Tax Agency, Luis Pedroche, presented the update to the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan this morning. The document, containing more than 140 measures, will be submitted to public consultation with a view to receiving suggestions from the different sectors of society. It is available on the Internet, on the website sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es

The update to the Tax Fraud Prevention Plan insists on the search of new sources of information and on focussing efforts on investigating the most complex forms of fraud. Furthermore, it places an emphasis on improving voluntary compliance and strengthening national and international collaboration.

In the four years that the plan has been in place (2005-2008), more than 27 billion euros will have been raised thanks to fraud control actions. In 2008 alone, around 8 billion euros will be raised, double the sum recorded in 2004.