The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, highlighted the importance of fiscal justice for the maintenance and strengthening of essential services to citizens, such as education, health, dependency or pensions. It did so during the inauguration of the conference ‘Three regions, a team’, which brings together these days in the Pazo de Mariñán more than a hundred directors and directors of the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) of Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria.
At the event, in which the deputy delegate of the Government, María Rivas, and the provincial deputy and mayor of Culleredo, José Ramón Rioboo, were also present, Pedro Blanco acknowledged the work of the current delegate of the Tax Agency in Galicia, Miguel Cárcaba, "example of collaboration with this Delegation of the Government, with total availability and in all the projects and issues we share."
In these two days, the directors and directors of the tax administration will be able to evaluate the novelties that were adopted in the tax legislation, in addition to reflecting on the vision and perception that society has on the operation and objectives of its public task.
With this respect, the delegate criticized the extension of messages that call into question such internalized concepts as fiscal justice and the redistribution of public revenues to ensure, among others, equal opportunities and social cohesion. “It is curious that, with a consolidated democracy, certain organizations and groups continue to doubt that it is the taxes that we pay all those who pay our pensions, maintain our public education and the stock exchange system, build our roads, as well as the national health system,” he said.
In this line, he stressed the importance of social awareness, “especially with the new people, who are building a distorted image of the Public Administration and the tax system based on interested opinions that feed with hoaxes and lies, also consolidating a positive social perception of tax fraud clearly harmful to the democratic state.”
Pedro Blanco pointed out that campaigns such as the one carried out by the Ministry of Finance, which focuses on the return of tax collection, are moving in the right direction, as is the Government’s commitment to the transparency of public accounts, to which are added the measures of management and control of public spending. “Never before has citizens been able to know the detail of all income and expenses, especially in two key aspects such as contracting and subsidies,” said the delegate.
In addition, he recalled that the Tax Agency has the largest number of staff in its history, with the challenges associated with environmental taxation and with new services and new channels of communication and relationship with citizens. A centrality of the citizen on which the Strategic Plan 2024-2027 revolves, in which the vocation of public service of the Agency and its positive image are reinforced.
The delegate concluded by encouraging managers and directors to continue their work of collecting to distribute, “allowing the economic support that public services require and guaranteeing the Welfare State and the consolidation of rights and freedoms.”