The Inter-American Tax Administration Center (CIAT) and EUROsociAL Fiscalidad, together with the General Taxation Directorate of Uruguay organized the Workshop on Auto diagnostic Tools on Ethics and Integrity in the Tax Administrations in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, from September 14-18, 2009. This workshop was aimed at promoting ethics and its main purpose was the application of the Auto diagnostic Guide designed by CIAT, through the Work Groups and the Permanent Ethics Committee.

Key to the development of this pilot program was the cooperation of the General Taxation Directorate. The result of this experience will serve as a reference for the revision, improvement and adjustment of the tools designed by CIAT, so that they may later be used by other AATTs of CIAT country members in their initiatives to promote ethics.

The opening ceremony was headed by Mr. Nelson Hernández, DGI Director of Uruguay, accompanied by the Deputy Director of this institution, Mr. Hugo Vallarino. Mrs. María Raquel Ayala Doval, CIAT Director of Tax Studies and Deputy Director for Latin America of EUROsociAL Fiscalidad also attended the event on behalf of CIAT.

Juan Antonio Garde and Alejandro Luelmo participated as teaching specialists in this training workshop for facilitators on behalf of AEAT, as well as Mr. Richard Dyson from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

Promotion of ethics and integrity in the administration is one of CIAT’s and EUROsociAL Fiscalidad network’s main work areas.