Civic tax education

• Students from Lugo, Zaragoza and Palma, winners in an edition that, as a novelty, incorporates a category of advertising, audiovisual or graphic pieces, along with the traditional editorial category

• This continues with an initiative that the Agency launched in 2008 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 winners read and presented their work

• In the last school year, 213 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have given 2,500 hours of training to more than 46,000 students, 30% more than in the previous year

November 11, 2019 .- The Tax Agency has today awarded the prizes to the winning and finalist students of the 2019 national competition for schools, a competition that the Agency convenes within the framework of its Program of Civic-Tax Education and which this year, for the first time, incorporates a new category of advertising, audiovisual or graphic pieces, along with the already traditional writing.

The winning students, schoolchildren who last year attended Primary and Secondary School in schools in Lugo, Zaragoza and Palma, received, like the finalists, the prizes at an event held at the Agency's headquarters, attended by family members and teachers. After the awards were presented by the director of the Tax Agency, Jesús Gascón, the students read and presented their works, chosen from those previously selected by the different territorial delegations of the Agency.

All winning and finalist works are published on the AEAT Civic-Tax Education Program Portal and can be accessed through the following web address:

National competition for schools 2019

The holding of the contest is part of a series of measures that aim to reinforce the Civic-Tax Education Program that the Agency has been developing since 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.

Training for 46,000 students

In the last school year, 213 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have given 2,500 hours of training to more than 46,000 students, 30% more schoolchildren than in the previous year.

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 works selected for this national contest incorporate these messages and show the need for an ethical correspondence between personal interests and common benefits in a society.

Students awarded in the 2019 national competition

Category – Primary Writing

Winner

Elena Páez Burgo, Primary 6 at CEIP Illa Verde in Lugo.

Finalists

• Daniel Paniagua Sánchez, Primary 6 at the Jesús Maestro school in León.

• Ignacio Pérez Reguera, Primary 6 at the San Juan de la Cruz school in León.

Category – ESO Writing

Winner

Juan Mas de la Natividad, 1st year of Baccalaureate at IES Pedro de Luna in Zaragoza.

Finalists

• Alba Buenaposada Gutiérrez, 4th year of ESO from IES Augusto González Linares de Santander.

• Carmen de la Torre Morcuende, 3rd year of ESO from the Romareda school in Zaragoza.

Category – Advertising piece

Winner

Andrea Michelle Hurtado Vidal, Sergio Pérez Sánchez, Gorang Puri, Alba Ayuso Cardona and Raquel Garau Martínez, 1st year of Baccalaureate at IES Son Rullan in Palma.

Finalists

• Nerea Jiménez Gallego, 1 CFGM Administrative Management of the Santa María Micaela school – Adoratrices de Cartagena.

• María Gamallo Martínez, 1st year of Baccalaureate at IES Valle Inclán in Pontevedra.