The president of the Association of State Treasury Inspectors, Ana de la Herrán, indicated that she sees “the human resources of the Body of Treasury Inspectors in danger and asks for protection and care from the rulers.”
With this, he referred, at the inauguration of the XXXIII Congress of State Treasury Inspectors, which was held in Burgos, to the concern of the group about the many officials of the Tax Agency who will retire in the following years. five years and those who are not agreement with IHE regarding the final call for competitions to fill vacant positions.
The president of the IHE indicated that “what we need is that when the taxpayer is served, it is done by a well-trained person who is chosen independently and objectively, not through a system that we do not know all that is available behavior.”
The acting Government called a selection process to fill 144 positions, through the free access system, and 69 positions, through internal promotion, for entering the Higher Corps of State Treasury Inspectors, making a total of 213 positions. .
Applicants who enter through internal promotion, in any case, have the desire to fill the vacant positions offered. The two selection systems are considered independent, so the places called by the internal promotion system that, if possible, remain vacant, cannot be accumulated in the free access systems.
Fernando Díaz Yubero, a retired Treasury inspector, stated that “I am not in favor of lowering, but of reasoning. In addition, it is necessary to update the syllabi and change the access system to attract the best.” In this regard, De la Herrán clarified that “modernizing the system does not mean lowering the level or applying subjective criteria, which endangers the independence of the official and it is necessary to end the precariousness. And what is needed is modernization. the syllabi”.
Regarding the interims, he emphasized that “they do not approve the opposition and we do not know what to ask of them. And that does not mean that we are elitist, but we want to provide the best public service and reduce. , like at the request of the European Union, the job insecurity of interim workers”.
The Court of Justice of the CJEU, already in March 2020, criticized the abuse of the interim number by the Spanish Administration; which makes it even more incomprehensible that this practice is not only not reduced, but also seeks to expand to areas of public service where it has never been used.
The president of IHE began by vindicating the work of this Supreme Body of State and asked for the protection of the rulers and requested that the “absolute independence and the best preparation of this Supreme Body of State” be valued.
The Association of State Tax Inspectors (IHE) has seen difficulties in ensuring that the access positions requested by the Tax Agency and which are expected to soon cover all the retirements planned for the next five years , about 7,000.
Remember, the current staff of AEAT is close to 26,000 employees, which should increase to 29,931 to be equal to the average of OECD countries. However, due to the high number of retirements planned for the next five years, the inspectors consider that the level of access positions in the Tax Agency will not cover the vacancies, so it is quite difficult to achieve -ot the purpose of nearly 30,000 personnel.
IHE considers that the situation has become “dramatic” in recent years, with a loss of staff from 2012 to 2019 of 12%. This situation happened based on the total number of workers which is below the average of the surrounding countries.
In addition, it is further increased by their aging, with an average age of more than 52 years, which will cause thousands of retirements in the coming years, as a result of strict replacement policies. of staff and create new positions, in an example of “inadequate planning” from the ministries involved, in the various governments that passed through them.
Due to this call for oppositions, the Association of Treasury Inspectors announced the presentation of a controversial administrative appeal against it, since it is considered that the inclusion of interims in this Superior Body “violates the principles of constitution and another attempt to colonize the Administration “.
According to reports, the call is a “complex normative referral” that seems to have the purpose of “hiding” it, but allows the appointment of interim official personnel to people who have not passed the opposition, and they are also not sure. passed the Institute of Fiscal Studies elective course that must be completed by all candidates who passed the opposition phase.
IHE considers that the situation has become “dramatic” in recent years in the human resources of the Treasury Inspectorate Corps and asks for protection and care from the rulers.
