Within the framework of the European Union’s Cooperation Program, EUROsociAL II, the General Directorate of Taxation (DGT) of the Ministry of Finance of Costa Rica received on April 20 to 22, 2015, expert advising from the Tax Administration Service (SAT) of Mexico. Advising was conducted by Mr. José Carlos Corona Pérez, International Examination Administrator, who shared the Mexican experience on tax information exchange with 27 tax administration officials from Costa Rica, mainly the Directorates of Intelligence, Collection, Examination and International Taxation. Through this advising Costa Rica endeavors to strengthen the management of previously required and simultaneous tax information exchange; and learn from Mexico’s experience with the implementation of FATCA and CRS, in the light of commitments acquired by the country.

The activity has been carried out as a result of a request filed by the country to the European Union’s Cooperation Program, EUROsociAL II, within the framework of the “Compliance with Tax Obligations” Action of the “Public Finance” Area, coordinated by FIIAPP, and whose operational partners are AEAT and IEF from Spain and CIAT. Hereinafter, CIAT, together with the partners of the EUROsociAL II Program will follow up the progress, requests and interests expressed by the tax administrations beneficiaries of the Program, for the purpose of moving on toward other new activities to support voluntary compliance.

From left to right: Juan Carlos Gomez, Deputy General Director of Taxation; Manuel Enrique Rovira, Director of the Finance Research and Training Center (CIFH) and José Carlos Corona, International Examination Administrator 3, of SAT of Mexico.		Officials from the tax administrations and from the Directorates of Intelligence, Collection, Examination and International Taxation participated in the course.