Civic tax education

• Students from Lugo, Zaragoza and Palma, winners in an edition that, as a novelty, includes a category for advertising, audiovisual or graphic pieces, along with the traditional one for editorials

• This is a continuation of an initiative that the Agency launched in 2008 during its visits to schools to explain the social meaning of taxes and the harm caused by tax fraud.

• Before the awards ceremony, the winners read and presented their works

• In the last school year, 213 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have provided 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 presented the awards to the winning and finalist students of the 2019 national competition for schools, a contest that the Agency convenes within the framework of its Civic-Tax Education Program and that 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, who last year attended primary and secondary school in Lugo, Zaragoza and Palma, received their prizes, just like the finalists, at an event held at the Agency's headquarters, which was attended by their families and teachers. Following the award ceremony by the director of the Tax Agency, Jesús Gascón, the students read and presented their works, chosen from among those previously selected by the different territorial delegations of the Agency.

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

National competition for schools 2019

The competition is part of a series of measures aimed at strengthening the Civic-Tax Education Programme 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 academic year, 213 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have provided 2,500 hours of training to more than 46,000 students, 30% more students than in the previous year.

The aim of these talks is to explain to young people the social meaning of paying taxes and their relationship with public spending, as well as the damage that tax fraud causes to 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 competition incorporate these messages and demonstrate the need for an ethical correspondence between personal interests and common benefits in a society.

Students awarded in the 2019 national competition

Category – Elementary Writing

Winner

Elena Páez Burgo, 6th grade at the Illa Verde Primary School in Lugo.

Finalists

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

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

Category – ESO Writing

Winner

Juan Mas de la Natividad, 1st year of Baccalaureate from the Pedro de Luna Secondary School in Zaragoza.

Finalists

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

• Carmen de la Torre Morcuende, 3rd year ESO student from 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.