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Regional technical workshop on tax expenditures

Economic development
10 November 2022|Event

This workshop was organized by ECLAC at its Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany. The objective of the meeting was to engage in a technical exchange between authorities and international organizations on tax expenditures and provide tools to strengthen their design, measurement, and accountability. As part of the workshop activities, an ECLAC report was presented on the measurement of tax expenditures in Latin America. At the opening of the event, Ms. Marita Brömmelmeier, Resident Director of GIZ Mexico, highlighted that the decades-long alliance that unites the German Cooperation and ECLAC, in this case through its project on Recover Better: Overcoming the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, " highlights the role of public policy to build consensus, focus efforts and resources for the sake of a more inclusive and friendly development for our climate and environment." Aware of the need to mobilize resources to finance sustainable and inclusive development in the region, this project aims, as Ms. Brömmelmeier said, to build "better understanding and analysis of tax spending to redesign and eliminate ineffective tax incentives for investment or identify tax expenditures that are inequitable or that promote economic activities that may be harmful to our environment and climate”.

10 Nov 2022

  • Coffee

    08:15 to 09:00

  • Welcome

    09:00 to 09:30
    Prebisch Hall

     

    • Hugo Beteta, Director of the Subregional headquarters in Mexico, ECLAC
    • Daniel Titelman, Director of the Economic Development Division, ECLAC
    • Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), Mexico, tbc
    • Marita Brömmelmeier, Country Director at GIZ Mexico

  • Presentation of the report: Measurement of tax expenditures in Latin América

    09:30 to 10:30
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: Noel Pérez Benítez, Coordinator of the Fiscal Affairs Unit, Economic
    Development Division, ECLAC

    • Daniel Titelman, Director of the Economic Development Division, ECLAC
    • Francisco Javier Arias Vázquez, Head of the Tax Revenue Policy Unit, SHCP, Mexico
    • Raymundo M. Campos Vázquez, Professor, Colegio de México

  • Coffee

    10:30 to 10:45

  • Session 1: Country experiences

    10:45 to 12:00
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: tbc

    • Lourdes Rodríguez Ruiz, Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance and Prices, Cuba
    • Jerson Rogelio Posada Molina, Vice Minister of Finance, El Salvador
    • Hernán Frigolett, Director, Internal Tax Revenue Service, Chile

  • Coffee

    12:00 to 12:15

  • Session 2: Country experiences

    12:15 to 13:30
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: tbc

    • Pamella Wade-Fearon, Deputy Financial Secretary, Taxation Policy Division, Jamaica
    • Claudia Balestrini, Undersecretary of Public Revenues, Argentina virtual
    • Fernando Mombelli, Subsecretário de Tributação e Contencioso, Receita Federal, Brazil
       

  • Lunch

    13:30 to 15:30

  • Session 3: Country experiences

    15:30 to 16:45
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: tbc

    • Rudolf Lücke Bolaños, General Director of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Costa Rica
    • Ada Lorena Godoy, Director, General Directorate of Tax Policy, Secretary of Finance, Honduras
    • Alda Castro Sánchez, Head of Fiscal Policy Directorate, General Directorate of Fiscal Policies and Statistics, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Nicaragua

  • Coffee

    16:45 to 17:00

  • Session 4: Country experiences

    17:00 to 18:15
    Prebish Hall
    • María Cristina Rodríguez and Raúl Valdivieso, Department of Tax Studies, General Directorate of Revenues, Panamá
    • Yulisa M. Benzán, Tax Studies and Policies Analyst, General Directorate of Tax Policy and Legislation, Ministry of Finance, Dominican Republic
    • Alfredo Ibrahim Flores Sarria, Executive Secretary, COSEFIN

11 Nov 2022

  • Coffee

    08:15 to 09:00

  • Session 5: International experiences

    09:00 to 11:00
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: Noel Pérez Benítez, ECLAC

    • Chiara Bronchi, Practice Manager, Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment, World Bank Group
    • Bert Brys, Head of the Tax Policy Unit, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
    • Agustin Redonda, Senior Fellow, Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and Christian von Haldenwang, Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) virtual
    • Daniel Titelman, Director of the Economic Development Division, ECLAC

  • Coffee

    11:00 to 11:15

  • Session 6: Country experiences

    11:15 to 12:30
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: tbc

    • Victor Hugo Morales Martínez, General Director of Domestic Taxation, Ministry of the Economy and Public Finance, Bolivia
    • Francisco Javier Arias Vázquez, Head of the Tax Revenue Policy Unit, SHCP, Mexico
    • Reynaldo José Carlos Torres Ocampo, Economic Studies Manager, National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT), Peru

  • Coffee

    12:30 to 12:45

  • Session 7: Country experiences

    12:45 to 14:15
    Prebisch Hall

    Moderator: tbc

    • Catherine Fenwarth, Advisor to the General Director, National Directorate of Taxes and Customs (DIAN), Colombia
    • Heidy Paola Ocampo Meneses, Fiscal Studies Specialist, National Directorate of Planning and Strategic Management, Internal Revenue Service, Ecuador
    • Diego Domínguez, Head of the Economic Advisory Department, Undersecretary of State for Taxation, Paraguay
    • Melisa Ronchi, Advisor, General Tax Directorate, Uruguay

  • Closing remark

    14:15 to 14:30
    Prebisch Hall

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