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The Tax Agency has obtained 37.6 billion euros since 2012 from its work in the fight against fraud.

Appearance before Congress

 

  • Tax control results improve by 13.5% to reach 2,889 million euros in the best first quarter in the historical series
  • The assets and rights abroad declared for the first time in form 720 total more than 124,000 million euros after incorporating assets of 14,300 million in 2015
  • The Tax Agency has already completed 110 verification files in relation to the Special Tax Declaration, with a settled amount of 16 million euros
  • The ONIF is now preparing the verifications based on the list of DTE presenters that has returned to the Agency after its analysis by Sepblac

  

April 21, 2015.- The general director of the Tax Agency, Santiago Menéndez, has advanced, today in the Congress of Deputies, a growth of 13.5% in the results of control of the Agency during the first quarter of 2015, reaching 2,889 million euros, bringing the results obtained since 2012 to 37,674 million euros.

The amount collected between January and March represents “the best result” of the Tax Agency in the first quarter of the entire historical series, Menéndez stressed during his appearance at the Treasury and Public Administration Commission of Congress, and maintains the “positive evolution.” with which 2014 closed, when 12,318 million euros were obtained as a result of the fraud prevention work carried out by the Agency.

The director of the Tax Agency underlined the relevance of these results in a context of liquidity difficulties in the economy and a gradual reduction in the Agency's workforce that is already being corrected with the latest ordinary and extraordinary public job offers called for the promotion of the fight against tax fraud and which, in 2015, translates into the access of 484 new personnel and 689 internal promotion positions.

In the context of its presentation of the control actions being carried out by the Tax Agency, Menéndez also highlighted the significant increase in 2014 of those that involve face-to-face checks at the domiciles or headquarters of the taxpayers.

Thus, in 2014, 1,822 entries and registrations were made, which represents an increase of 40% compared to those carried out in 2013. Of these, the 120% increase in entries made by Customs Surveillance in support of the Inspection bodies and the National Fraud Investigation Office (ONIF) stands out, which totaled 88 last year.



16 million settled after analyzing the DTE information

Menéndez also offered a preview of the actions that the Agency has been carrying out in relation to the information derived from the presentation of form 750 of the Special Tax Declaration (DTE).

As announced last February, in 2013 the Agency began a first phase of control for the detection of both income not shown in the 750, as well as actual owners of declared assets that could have been hidden behind the formal presenters of the DTE.

As a result of this analysis, which affects 364 files on nearly 300 taxpayers, for the moment the Tax Agency has concluded actions on 110 files, with a global amount of debt settled by the AEAT of more than 16 million euros.

At the same time, the Tax Agency already has the return information from the Executive Service for Prevention and Money Laundering (Sepblac) in relation to the list of DTE presenters who, according to the analyzes carried out by the Agency, present indications of having may have committed money laundering.

The list, finally made up of a total of 715 taxpayers, thus returns to the National Fraud Investigation Office (ONIF) to continue with the corresponding actions in each specific case.



More than 124 billion abroad declared for the first time

Meanwhile, the Agency continues with the analysis of the more than 7,000 taxpayers preselected for inspection verification for not having submitted form 720 for the declaration of assets and rights located abroad – they must do so, according to the information the Agency has –, or either for having made the declaration incorrectly, both for filing after the deadline and for having ignored the presentation in 2013 of assets and rights that they owned then, but did not declare until 2014.

Meanwhile, new assets and rights continue to expand the information incorporated in the 720 model. Thus, in 2015, the third year in which the presentation of this declaration is mandatory, a total of 14,324 million euros have been declared for the first time, by 27,576 taxpayers.

These assets declared for the first time in form 720 are added to the more than 89,000 million incorporated by 135,000 taxpayers in the 2013 presentation and the more than 20,700 million incorporated by 32,500 taxpayers in the declaration presented in 2014.

In this way, in the three-year declarations, assets and rights abroad have been accumulated for a global amount of more than 124,000 million euros, which will be integrated into the Tax Agency's databases for future verifications. Information that was not available until 2012.



Control of high value properties

Beyond the results offered by the analysis of the more than 7,000 taxpayers selected for verification in relation to model 720, the Tax Agency already used the information offered by this model in its extensive controls during 2013 and 2014.

Thus, in the first year in which it had this valuable information on foreign assets, the Tax Agency selected a total of 550 taxpayers who had not declared the real estate charges corresponding to a series of very high value properties that they had included in the model 720. As a result of those actions, settlement was carried out on 121 taxpayers, for an amount, including penalties and late payment interest, of almost 2 million euros.

At the same time, and with the aim of making the most of the available information, also promoting voluntary compliance with tax obligations, the Tax Agency launched tens of thousands of warning messages in the last two Income Tax campaigns, through the tax data, to remind taxpayers who had incorporated assets into form 720, that they had to declare the income from said assets in their personal income tax.