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objective is that taxpayers notice that the fight against fraud is effective, increasing
tax awareness and voluntary compliance.

5. How do you see IOTA in the next 20 years? How IOTA could give you more?

I see IOTA as a leading tax organisation in facilitating the exchange of views and
experiences in practical issues in the European region. As I said before, IOTA is
unique in this aspect and it must take advantage of this uniqueness and exploit it.

I also see IOTA as a peer of the other international tax organisations, working
together on the most important projects, issuing joint communiqués to support the
fight against fraud, the promotion of electronic services, cooperative compliance and
any other future trends, being highly represented and actively participating in the
most important conferences and having high ranking delegations of the members
and the international partners in the annual General Assembly.

I think that some very important steps have already
been taken in this regard (signing of new MOUs or
agreements with the European Commission and the
OECD, the International Survey on Revenue
Administration /ISORA/ joint initiative with IMF,
OECD and CIAT as some examples) and they must
necessarily bear fruit in the coming years.

Regarding the second question, how IOTA could give
more to the Spanish Tax Agency, I think that IOTA
could play a role in being an intermediary in capacity
building activities. IOTA knows the experts from
different countries in specific subjects of tax administration and it could help
countries which need this support and expertise and the funding institutions and
donors to organise capacity building activities. In this sense, I support IOTA being
part of the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool /TADAT/ Technical
Advisory Group, since I find this tool very useful for the diagnostic assessment of
gaps in tax administrations.

6. What is your best memory, story in connection with IOTA events?

The Spanish Tax Agency is very supportive of IOTA, always trying to look for experts
and speakers for the technical events, actively participating in the General Assembly,
willing to be a member of the Executive Council to take part in the main decisions
concerning the organisation, and constantly giving feed-back, opinion and

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