Participating in this event were important international and national speakers such as the Director of the State Agency of Tax Administration of Spain, Mr. Juan Manuel López Carbajo, the Director of Tax Credit Services and Management of the DGI of Portugal, Mr. Jose María Pires, the international consultant, Mrs. Teresa Ter-Minassian, IDB specialist, Mr. Luiz Vilella, the CIAT Executive Secretary, Mr. Marcio Verdi, Finance Secretaries and Undersecretaries of various States of Brazil, as well as federal and state attorneys and representatives of associations and organizations.

The participants and speakers discussed key issues that impact the tax administrations, such as ethics and the citizen’s duty to pay taxes, the use of ICTs in the tax administrations, increased subjective risk, collection management and transfers and VAT co-participations at the subnational levels.

Other CIAT Executive Secretariat representatives in addition to the Executive Secretary were the Director of Tax Studies and Training, Mrs. María Raquel Ayala Doval and the Technical Assistance Manager, Mr. Raúl Zambrano, who together with the Secretary presented the experience and best practices identified and analyzed by the Center in supporting the tax administrations of its member countries.  The final report of this event was also presented by the Secretariat.

Given the success of this first experience, another version will be organized next year in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil.

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From left to right: Maria Fatima Pessoa Cartaxo – IDB, Eudaldo Almeida – ENCAT, Márcio F. Verdi – CIAT Executive Secretary, Claudio Trinchao – Commissioner of the Maranhão State Department of Taxation and Finance, Carlos Martins – CONFAZ President, Marcos Vinicius Neder de Lima – Deputy Commissioner for Audit and Inspection, Receita Federal