The Tax Agency has awarded prizes to the winning students of the 2024-2025 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 students who won the first prizes, who last year studied primary, secondary and high school education in centers in Granada, Lleida, Castellón and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, along with the rest of the award winners, received the prizes in an event attended by family members and teachers.

After the awards were presented by the Director General of the Tax Agency, Soledad Fernández Doctor, at an event held at the headquarters of the Special Delegation for Large Taxpayers, the schoolchildren read and presented their work, chosen from among those previously selected by the different territorial delegations of the Agency.

The winning entries are published in the space of Civic and Tax Education Programfrom the Electronic Office of the Tax Agency.

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 and develop, in accordance with its Strategic Plan.

The program includes the participation of officials who give talks to students in the final years of primary education, secondary education, high school, vocational training and universities. The activities carried out in the centers are complemented by training activities for teachers and open days for schools in the Agency's 52 delegations.

In the first nine months of the year, 397 trainers from the various territorial delegations of the Tax Agency have given more than 2,350 hours of training to almost 66,000 students in school stages, in addition to the courses and talks given in the university field.

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 2024-2025 National PECT Competition
PRIMARY EDITORIAL	PRIMARY DRAWING	ESO / BACH. / FP DRAFTING	ESO / BACH. / FP ADVERTISEMENT PIECE
1st prize Lola Moreno Huete 5th Grade CEIP Luis Rosales (Granada) 2nd prize Ares Lagoa Lozano 6th Grade CEIP Príncipe Felipe (Madrid) 3rd prize Valeria Rodríguez González 5th Grade CEIP Camino del Norte (Lion)	1st prize Lucía Mercado Puértolas 6th Grade Escola La Mitjana (Lleida) 2nd prize Alba Aguilar Manrique 6th Grade CEIP Los Morales (Málaga) 3rd prize Laura Díaz Paniagua 5th Grade CEIP Alfredo Di Stéfano (Madrid)	1st prize Adriana Mut Segura 1st year of Baccalaureate FEC Madre Vedruna Sacred Heart School (Castellón) 2nd prize Mireia Lozano Tena 1st year of Baccalaureate IES El Portillo (Zaragoza) 3rd prize Elsa Martínez Herráez 1st year of Baccalaureate CE Gençana (Godella, Valencia)	1st prize Samara Jorge García 3rd year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) IES Echeyde III (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) 2nd prize Daniela Rodríguez Rey 4th year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) Torreanaz School (Anaz, Cantabria) 3rd prize Paula Llorca Cermeño 1st year of Baccalaureate Beatriz Galindo High School (Madrid)