Last June 9, 2010, the new Director of the AEAT, Mr. Juan Manuel López Carbajo, the CIAT President, Mr. Pablo Ferreri and the CIAT Executive Secretary, Mr. Márcio Verdi, met in Madrid, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Also present in the meeting representing the AEAT were Mr. Gaspar Caballo, Deputy Director of the Organizational, Planning and Institutional Relations Department, Mr. Vicente Peirats, Head of the International Relations Coordinating Unit and Mr. Luis Cremades, Head of the Spanish Permanent Mission at CIAT.

At this meeting, the CIAT Executive Secretary thanked the Spanish authorities for the support received by the Organization in these past twenty eight years of uninterrupted collaboration, going over the strategic lines and actions wherein the aforementioned support and collaboration have been evidenced.

On his part, the AEAT General Director also thanked CIAT and expressed his firm willingness to continue working with CIAT to jointly strengthen the Latin American Tax Administrations.