The central government and the Generalitat have agreed to create a joint working group to study how to strengthen the Agència Tributària de Catalunya (ATC), which must assume more responsibilities with the unique financing model included in the investiture agreement of Salvador Illa agreed with ERC.
The Ministry of the Economy confirmed that the central and regional executive They started working on this lineas reported this Saturday by La Vanguardia.
The working group will be composed of eight peoplefour from the department headed by Alícia Romero and four others from the Ministry of Finance. In addition, two senior officials from the Ministry and two others from ATC will participate.
Precisely, the Government plans to officially appoint during its meeting next Tuesday Andreu Navas as new ATC director.
The Catalan executive has already created a group in Catalonia which must design and implement the new financing model of the Generalitat, coordinated by the economist Martí Carnicer.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, pledged on October 16 in Parliament to quadruple the size of the ATC to prepare it for manage tax volume which will be assumed when the single financing model agreed by the ERC and the PSC becomes a reality.
The ATC’s main challenge is to take charge of personal income tax from 2026, a mission that requires it to prepare to give a significant increase in staff numbers.
Although the president did not specify when the ATC could quadruple in sizethe scenario outlined leads to projecting in the near future an ATC with more than 3,400 employees.
Who is Andreu Navas
On the other hand, the government plans to officially appoint Andreu Navas as the new director of the ATC during its meeting next Tuesday, according to The Ministry of the Economy also confirmed.
Born in Tarragona in 1974Navas holds a degree in Commercial Sciences from Rovira i Virgili University and Graduate in Law and Business Administration and Management by the Open University of Catalonia.
Since 2009 he has been chief inspector of the autonomous body Base-Gesció d’Ingressos, responsible for the management, liquidation, inspection, verification and collection of all types of income of the Provincial Delegation of Tarragona.
