The Tax Agency has awarded prizes to the winning and finalist students of the 2021-2022 national competition for schools, a contest that the Agency has been holding annually within the framework of its Civic-Tax Education Program and which it is now resuming after the competition held in 2019, before the health crisis. The awards have been granted in the three existing categories: 'Writing' for Third Cycle of Primary and ESO-Baccalaureate-FP students, and 'Advertising Piece' for ESO-Baccalaureate-FP students.

The three winning students, pupils who last year attended primary and secondary school in schools in Ávila and Pontevedra, received, like the finalists, the awards at an event attended by their families and teachers. Following the award ceremony by the Secretary of State, Jesús Gascón, and the Director General of the Tax Agency, Soledad Fernández Doctor, the students read and presented their works, chosen from among those previously selected by the Agency's various territorial delegations.

The winning and finalist works are published on the AEAT Civic-Tax Education Programme Portal.

The competition is part of a series of measures aimed at strengthening the Civic-Tax Education Program that the Agency has been developing since 2003 and which it plans to intensify and develop, in accordance with the Strategic Plan 2020-2023.

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.

Last year, 255 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have provided more than 2,500 hours of training to more than 53,000 students, thus exceeding the training capacity prior to the reduction of this activity that occurred in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis.

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 2021-2022 national competition

Category – Primary ‘Writing’

Winner

- Víctor Rodríguez Mayoral, Primary 6 at CEIP Arturo Duperier in Ávila.

Finalists

- Lucia Diez Pinto, 6th grade at the CEIP Trajano in Merida.

- Jimena Quinteiro Espiñeira, 5th grade at the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús school in Pontevedra.

Category – ESO-Bachillerato-FP ‘Writing’

Winner

- Violeta Fortes Villaverde, 4th year of ESO from the IES Sánchez Canton in Pontevedra.

Finalists

- Irene Virto Angulo, 1st year of Baccalaureate from the IES Antonio Machado in Soria.

- David Bonet Montejo, 1st year of Baccalaureate from the Lestonnac school in Lleida.

Category – 'Advertising piece'

Winner

- Claudia Casal Campelo, 4th year of ESO from the IES Sánchez Canton in Pontevedra.

Finalists

- Dulce Suyapa García Amaya, 1st year of high school at Gamo Diana school in Madrid.

- Salma Akharraz Echchaqam, Marina Beltran Manjon, Radostina Krasimirova Voykova, Iker Larrubia Diaz, Esperanza Lopez Martinez, Lucia Pedregosa Galiana and Marta Zapata Bibiloni, 1st year of Baccalaureate from the IES Nou Llevant in Palma de Mallorca.