Reading and comments “Governance” is described as follows by the IAIA – International Association for Impact Assessment: “Governance is at the heart of decision making. It is about how decisions are made, and encompasses more than the need to exhibit transparency, efficiency and public participation in decision-making. Governance determines also…
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Let’s make it visible I have decided to publish this post for the following reasons: On September 26, in Quito, I presented a paper on the vision of the future use of information technology in the tax administration. At the end of my presentation, I insisted on the need for…
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Why not also fiscal education? I have recently relayed, through the Financial Education Network of Spain (coordinated and funded by the Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks, in Spanish CECA) that the OECD, through its report “National Strategies for Financial Education “, proposes to introduce this topic to all the citizens…
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Comments on the Nairobi technical conference At the 2013 Technical Conference I had the opportunity to comment on the presentations on tax audits in the digital era made at the inaugural session by Jaco Tempel, from the Tax and Customs Administration of The Netherlands and Enrique Sánchez-Blanco from the Spanish…
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What networks say The previous post, about musical tax collection, focused on the effect of beating the drums, i.e. informing about the Administration’s actions. It is no secret that one of the elements to increase the taxpayers’ risk perception is to let everyone know about their noncompliance. If the administration…
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A noisy innovation The title of this post has to do with mice. Not those of Cheo Feliciano’s song, who stay at home because if they leave, the cat is going to catch them. These are mice that have tax debts and are chased by a peculiar form of tax…
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