A meeting was held in Brasilia, Brazil on June 14, with the participation of the CIAT Executive Secretary, Márcio F. Verdi; the Head of the French Mission at CIAT, Isabelle Gaetan; the CIAT Consultant, Decio Carretta; and the following RFT officials: Deputy Secretary, Zayda Bastos Manatta; Deputy Secretary of Customs and International Relations, Ernani Argolo Checcucci Filho; General Coordinator of International Relations, Marcos Aurélio Pereira Valadão; General Coordinator of Programming, Iágaro Jung Martins; acting General Coordinator of Examination, Ricardo de Souza Moreira and acting General Coordinator of Collection and Recovery, Bruno Sergio Silva de Andrade.

Some of the topics discussed were the 2011 CIAT Technical Conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal next October 24-27, under the main theme of ” Administrative Collection Process as Effective Mechanism for Increasing Revenues “, where the RFB will be making a presentation on: “Models for Organization Collection”. The group also discussed the continuation of the Cooperation Agreement between the RFB and DGFIP of France. Based on the Program, it was agreed that the RFB would make internal consultations regarding the priority issues and would following along the line of training of managers, planning, evaluation and management contracts, topics in which the DGFIP is a specialist. Consideration was also given to the CIAT/IDB Questionnaire on Benchmarking in the Tax Administrations. The identification of best practices in the survey will allow for improvements in several Tax Administrations in Latin America and the RFB collaborates in this process.

Upon conclusion of the meeting, the Secretary of Federal Revenues of Brazil (RFB), Carlos Alberto Freitas Barreto, congratulated the group for their achievements.

Left to right: Marcos Aurélio Pereira Valadão, General Coordinator of International Relations; Isabelle Gaetan, French Chief of Mission at the CIAT; Carlos Alberto Barreto Freitas, Secretary of the Receita Federal do Brasil; Márcio F. Verdi, CIAT Executive Secretary; Zayda Bastos Manatt, Deputy Secretary of the Receita Federal do Brasil; Ernani Filho Argolo Checcucci, Undersecretary of Customs and International Relations at the Receita Federal do Brasil