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2018 Report

2.3. Organisation

The governing bodies of the Tax Agency are: the Chairman, who is the Secretary of State for the Treasury and the Director-General, with the level of a Subsecretariat.

The President is responsible for exercising the highest management of the Tax Agency and for its legal representation in all types of acts and contracts, while the Director General is responsible for directing its ordinary operations.

The advisory bodies of the Tax Agency's management are the Permanent Steering Committee and the Regional Management Coordinating Committee.

The Permanent Steering Committee is presided over by the President of the Tax Agency or, in his absence, by the General Director, who is the Vice-President. All the Directors of the Departments and Services of the Tax Agency form part of this Committee, and the Central Delegate for Large Taxpayers and the Special Delegate for Madrid also attend its meetings.

Members of the Standing Steering Committee as of December 31, 2018

  • Ines Maria Bardon Rafael, President
  • Jesus Gascon Catalan, Managing Director
  • Gonzalo David García de Castro, Director of the Tax Management Department
  • Javier Hurtado Puerta, Director of the Department of Financial and Tax Inspection
  • Guillermo Barros Gallego, Director of the Collection Department
  • Pilar Jurado Borrego, Director of the Customs and Excise Department
  • Manuel Alfonso Castro Martínez, Director of the Taxation IT Department
  • Francisco Celso González González, Director of the Human Resources Department
  • Diego Loma-Osorio Lerena, Director of Legal Services
  • Mª Teresa Campos Ferrer, Director of Internal Audit Services
  • Amparo Sebastiá Casado, Director of the Economic Management Service
  • Rubén Víctor Fernández de Santiago, Director of the Tax and Statistics Studies Service
  • Rosa Mª Prieto del Rey, Director of the Planning and Institutional Relations Service
  • Francisco Javier Hernández García, Director of the Office of the Director-General
  • Manuel Trillo Álvarez, Central Delegate of Large Taxpayers
  • Soledad Fernández Doctor, Special Delegate of Madrid

The Co-ordinating Committee for the Regional Directorate is chaired by the General Director of the Tax Agency and is composed by the members of the Permanent Steering Committee, as well as by the Central Delegate for Major Taxpayers and by all the Special Delegates of the Tax Agency.

The structure of the Tax Agency is divided into Central Services and Regional Services.

The Central Services are based in an organisation model of functional operational areas and support areas. 

The Territorial Services, as of December 31, 2018, were made up of 17 Special Delegations - one for each Autonomous Community - and 39 Delegations, which include 191 Administrations and 31 Customs Administrations and II.EE.

In 2006, the Central Delegation of Large Taxpayers was created, an agency with jurisdiction throughout the national territory, with functions aimed at coordinated control and improving attention and service to large taxpayers. 

In addition, the Tax Agency forms part of and presides over collegiate bodies of coordination of the transferred taxes established in Act nº 22/2009 of 18 December: the Higher Council for Tax Coordination and Management (a collegiate body formed by representatives of the Tax Administration of the State and of the Autonomous Community regions and Cities with Statutes of Autonomy), and the Regional Councils for Tax Management and Coordination (collegiate bodies formed by representatives of the Tax Authorities of the State and of the Autonomous Community region or City with its respective Statute of Autonomy).

The basic organizational chart of the Tax Agency as of December 31, 2018 is shown below:

Flow chart of the Tax Agency