Control all debtors of public administrationswhether it is the State, the autonomy or the municipalities. This is the objective that the Ministry of Finance has set itself and, to this end, the Tax Agency has already taken steps to create a sort of Big brother which manages all public sector debtors. And, where applicable, all appropriate actions.
This project will be named Neutral embargo point. It will be an IT platform which will be used “for the development of exchanges of debtor information and payments by Public Administrations”.
Said platform will also make it possible to carry out “the communications or notifications necessary to carry out the collections management actions in application of the above-mentioned exchanges”.
In this way, the Tax Administration will obtain a tool that will allow it to control If a taxpayer or company has a pending payment to the Administration, whether taxes, (social security) contributions or any type of regional or municipal contribution.
This is a control and surveillance that fundamental for the management of public aid and benefits. In its design, it is increasingly taken into account that they are only granted to individuals and companies when they do not have any type of debt with the Administrations.
Thus, this tool, for which the processing of a royal decree has begun, will be used to chase him away cheaters who try to access it without complying with the requirement to be net of debts in all administrations.
“With the implementation of the said feature, The objective is to prevent those who are debtors of all public administrations from receiving these payments to you whether these payments must be the subject of executive actions of any of them”, includes the documentation of the Ministry of Finance (which was put for public consultation) to which EL ESPAÑOL-Invertia had access.
Thus, with the Neutral Embargo Point, the Government seeks to establish “a neutral space in which the information of debtors during the executive period of all Public Administrations and that corresponding to the payments that all
they can remember“All this, according to the document, “represents a clear improvement in the control of public spending.”
Treasury controls will also improve over time. The Tax Agency is also preparing a regulatory amendment to strengthen control of payments of self-employed workers and entrepreneurs.
PLV and even Bizum
More specifically, financial institutions will have to monthly report, not annualon the accusations made by “professionals and businessmen across cards or sales terminals (POS) or via systems associated with a mobile phone number“.
That is to say, monitoring is strengthened for all electronic payments, whether bank cards, all types of electronic payments or even Bizum, Treasury documentation is required.
The objective of this measure is to improve the fight against tax fraud, as well as to facilitate “the adoption of much more effective precautionary measures and embargoesstreamlining collection management.
