Prevenction and Control of Tax and Customs Fraud

The actions of the Tax Agency have resulted in a collection of 16,675 million euros in the prevention and control of fraud in 2022. It should be noted that in 2021 there were decreases in fractional payments that could be difficult to repeat in the future, and in fact, in 2022 the decreases for these cases have decreased significantly (from 1,940 to 1,313 million euros). Disregarding these extraordinary cases, the homogeneous results of fraud prevention and control grew by 2.7% to reach 15,362 million euros. Within these global figures, the income achieved directly by the Tax Agency in control actions has increased by 16.6% to reach 10,536 million euros. The decreases in refunds without extraordinary fractional payments have decreased to 4,013 million euros (-22.3%), as last year the results of a series of Customs and Excise files were significantly reduced (from 3,255 to 1,641 million euros), also due to the difficulty of repeating it over time. In addition to the aforementioned results (direct income and refund reductions), there are other income that, although they cannot be directly attributed to the performance of a control action, are the result of general actions carried out by the Agency. This is the case of income from late declarations without prior requirement, whose calculation in 2022 reached 813 million euros, 7.8% more than in 2021. However, these incomes present an irregular evolution over time that prevents the establishment of a reliable reference or objective.

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