CIAT/PROFISCO-TO Agreement is submitted to the Sefaz Organization
The top level authorities of the Secretariat of Finance, including consultants, coordinators and directors, participated on Wednesday October 23rd, at the Egefaz Auditorium in the presentation of the terms of the agreement between SEFAZ-TO and the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations – CIAT, for the execution of the PMAT-TO Modernization project of the Tocantins Tax Administration.
The Executive Secretary, Ramon Garcia Queiroz, who represented the Secretary of Finance, Marcelo Olímpio, at the event, said it was a great to the satisfaction have signed the Agreement which will drive forward the PROFISCO/TO. “Today we are concerned about the shortcomings of the financial and tax systems, but with CIAT´s , presence and everyone´s participation in the process we will move forward to improve our services”, Ramon said.
Márcio Ferreira Verdi, CIAT Executive Secretary, said that the purpose is to promote cooperation and best practices, through technical assistance and training in the tax area. “Our spirit is collaboration. We do not have ready – made projects ready and what we will do here is work together as partners in the tax area,” Verdi said.
The CIAT Director of Technical Assistance and Information Technology, Raúl Zambrano, presented the main points of the agreement with Sefaz. He said that the first step is to diagnose the SIAT – Integrated Tax Administration System and begin the strategic planning of the Secretariat. “We have to develop the culture of planning to then improve management”, Zambrano said.
Representing the IDB – Inter-American Development Bank, the expert Maria Cristina Macdowell, praised the initiative of presenting the Agreement to the employees and also praised the work done by the UCP – Project Coordination Unit of Sefaz. “Several important steps have been taken in less than a year of Profisco´s existence. The most important was the signing of the agreement with CIAT which can only contribute to the modernization if everyone is involved “, Macdowell concluded.
Picture: View of participants