The fight against tax fraud raised 16,675 million in 2022: it is 1.3% less than the previous year

The actions to combat tax fraud allowed the collection of 16,675 million euros in 2022, 1.3% less than the previous year, a decrease that is due to extraordinary effects that affected the result of last year.

Once these extraordinary effects are discounted, the homogeneous results reached 15,362 million, 2.7% more than last year, according to the balance of the tax control results of the Tax Agency published this Tuesday.

Most of this amount corresponds to direct income, 10,536 million, 16.6% more, while the induced -declarations that were presented after the deadline, but without the need for a prior requirement- reached 813 million, 7, 8% more. The rest of the amount corresponds to reductions of returns.

Last year, the Tax Agency carried out almost 1.9 million internal tax control actions, 5.2% more, most of them verification. These include 29,394 actions on large companies, multinationals and corporate groups (8.9% more), 2,971 on asset and corporate analysis (2.5% more) and 5,594 on concealment of activity and abuse of corporate forms (5.2 % further).

For its part, the control of relevant assets made it possible to settle a debt of 546 million from 1,130 files. 97 taxpayers artificially located in other countries were also identified, to which 28.2 million have been liquidated.

With regard to international taxation, the Tax Agency regularized tax bases in 2022 for an amount of 3,409 million euros and reached prior valuation agreements that guarantee future bases for more than 2,700 million.

Among the actions of the National Fraud Investigation Office (ONIF) is the analysis of the use of bank cards charged to accounts abroad (“offshore”), with which 78.8 million euros have been settled.

Emergence of underground economy

The actions to bring out the underground economy reached 2,312 in 2022, which made it possible to regularize quotas for 435 million euros, 8.8% more, and 122 million were paid to taxpayers who had been subject to entry and registration actions.

In addition, the Tax Agency made more than 29,000 face-to-face visits to sectors and areas of tax risk, of which almost 9,800 corresponded to the VAT plan and almost 1,800 were complementary to sectoral macro-operations.

The Treasury also highlights the induced effect of the notices sent to taxpayers to remind them of the need to declare rents, which according to their calculations has allowed the tax base to come out of 7,700 million in the last six years and collect 933 million.

The actions of the collection area allowed the outstanding debt to be reduced to 40,421 million, 3.8% less, of which 15,864 million was voluntary debt and the rest (24,558 million), executive debt.