The Tax Agency has awarded prizes to the winning and finalist students of the 2023-2024 national competition for schools, a contest that the Tax Agency has been holding annually within the framework of its Civic-Tax Education Program. The awards have been granted in the different existing categories: 'Writing', 'Drawing' and 'Advertising Piece'. 

The four winning students, who last year attended primary and secondary education in schools in Lleida, Cantabria, Cádiz and Las Palmas, received their awards, as did the finalists, at an event attended by their families and teachers. 

Following the presentation of the awards by the Secretary of State for Finance, Jesús Gascón, and the Director General of the Tax Agency, Soledad Fernández Doctor, at an event held at the new headquarters of the Special Delegation for Large Taxpayers, the students read and presented their works, chosen from among those previously selected by the different territorial delegations of the Agency. 

The winning and finalist works are published in the Civic-Tax Education Program area of the Tax Agency's electronic headquarters. 

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 and which it plans to intensify, in accordance with its Strategic Plan. 

The programme features the participation of civil servants who give talks to students in the final years of primary education, compulsory secondary education, high school, vocational training and universities. 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 first nine months of the year, 348 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the Tax Agency have provided more than 2,100 hours of training to more than 60,000 school students, in addition to the courses and talks given at universities. 

The aim 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 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. 

Award-winning students of the 2023-2024 PECT National Competition

PRIMARY EDITORIAL	PRIMARY DRAWING	ESO / BACH. / FPREDACTION	ESO / BACH. / FPPADVERTISING PARTY
Winner Aina Alcover Queralt 6th grade Santa Anna College (Lleida)	Winner Cecilia Rios Cobo 5th grade Torreánaz College (Anaz, Cantabria)	Winner Africa Cruz Hernandez 1st year of high school Los Pinos School (Algeciras, Cadiz)	Winner Lucia Gonzalez de Guzman 1st year of high school CEIPS Santa Teresa de Jesus (Las Palmas GC)
Finalists Carla Gonzalez Alonso 6th grade CEIP Campo de los Judíos (Ponferrada, Leon)	Finalists Anna Tejero Vilarrubla 6th grade La Mitjana School (Lleida)	Finalists Chama Alouat El Mzoury 1st year of high school Puçol Secondary School (Puçol, Valencia)	Finalists Julia Estarellas Nadal, Marian Garcia Mas, Maria Rosa Moreno Duran and Ines Ruiz Badillo 4th year of ESO Sant Antoni Abat College (Palma de Mallorca)
Lucas Buceta Calvino 5th grade CEIP Plurilingual do Carballal (Marin Pontevedra)	Nicole Capella Garcia 6th grade Leopoldo Alas Primary School (Madrid)	Sara Salazar Rodriguez 1st year of high school El Portillo Secondary School (Saragossa)	Sara Weaver Saldana 4th year of ESO School of the Virgin at the Foot of the Cross (Puçol, Valencia)