The Tax Agency has awarded prizes to the winning and finalist students of the 2022-2023 national competition for schools, a contest that the Agency has been holding annually within the framework of its Civic-Tax Education Program. The awards have been granted in the different existing categories: "Writing", "Drawing" and "Advertising Piece".

The winning students, who last year attended primary school secondary school and school in Badajoz, Pontevedra, Murcia and Tenerife, received, like the finalists, the awards at an event attended by their families and teachers. Following the presentation of the awards by the Secretary of State, Jesús Gascón, and the Director General of the Tax Agency, Soledad Fernández Doctor, at an event held at the new headquarters of the Central Delegation of Large Taxpayers, the students read and presented their works, chosen from among those previously selected by the different territorial delegations of the Agency.

The winning and finalist works are published on the Portal of the Civic-Tax Education Program of the AEAT .

The competition is part of a series of measures aimed at strengthening the Civic-Tax Education Programme that the Agency has been developing since 2003 and which it plans to intensify and develop, in accordance with its Strategic Plan.

The programme includes the participation of civil servants who give talks to students in the final years of primary education, ESO , Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and universities. The programme's activities, carried out in schools and education centres, also include training courses for teachers and open days for schools at the 52 regional delegations of the Tax Agency.

Last year, 329 trainers from the different territorial delegations of the AEAT have provided more than 2,600 hours of training to more than 72,000 students.

The aim of these talks is to explain to young people the social meaning of paying taxes and their relationship with public spending, as well as the damage that tax fraud causes to society as a whole.

By incorporating tax and civic education content into the school curriculum, the initiative hopes to encourage young people to develop a sense of civic responsibility. The works selected for this national competition incorporate these messages and demonstrate the need for an ethical correspondence between personal interests and common benefits in a society.