Civic tax education

• An initiative that the Agency launched in 2008 is resumed within the framework of its visits to schools to explain the social meaning of taxes and the damage caused by tax fraud.
• Before the awards ceremony, the schoolchildren read the winning text and the two finalist essays
• In the last school year, 225 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have given 2,100 hours of training to more than 35,000 students

November 23, 2018.- María Victoria Pérez Martínez, a fourth-year ESO student at the 'Cervantes' institute in Madrid, is the winner of the 2018 national writing contest for schools organized by the Tax Agency within the framework of its Civic-Tax Education Program. The finalist students were Ana Yong Aranda Gómez, in the sixth year of primary school at 'La Anunciata' school in León, and Marta Sola Aguilera, in the third year of ESO at the 'Francisco Grande Covián' school in Zaragoza.

The awards were presented to the three schoolchildren today by the director of the Tax Agency, Jesús Gascón, in an event held at the Agency's headquarters, attended by family members and teachers of the award-winning students, who read their writings chosen from the different editorial offices. previously selected by the territorial delegations of the AEAT.

The Tax Agency thus resumes the celebration of the national writing contest that it established in 2008. The decision to reactivate this national competition, which in recent years was only carried out in AEAT territorial delegations, is part of a series of measures that aim to reinforce the Civic-Tax Education Program that the Agency has been developing since last year. 2003.

The programme includes the participation of civil servants, who give talks to pupils in their last years of primary school and secondary school, vocational training and university students.

The programme's activities, carried out in schools and education centres, also include training courses for teachers and open days for schools at the 52 regional delegations of the Tax Agency. In the last school year, 225 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have given 2,100 hours of training to more than 35,000 students.

The purpose of these talks is to explain to young people the social meaning of paying taxes and their correspondence with public spending, as well as the damage that tax fraud represents for society as a whole.

By incorporating tax and civic education content into the school curriculum, the initiative hopes to encourage young people to develop a sense of civic responsibility. The three writings selected for this national writing contest incorporate these messages and show the need for an ethical correspondence between personal interests and common benefits in a democratic society.