Marielos Fuentes, director of the Visible Guatemala organization, explained the importance of the election of the new head of the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT), with the list of candidates who present their file this Thursday 13, March.
Fuentes, makes recommendations to the board of the SAT that will choose the new official, and emphasize that he must be a person with experience, experience and suitability.
In comparison with other processes of election of officials in the public administration and judicial system in which it is done through a application commission, the board of the SAT, which is presided over by Finance Minister Jonathan Menkos and directors Adriana Estévez Clavería and Julio Otoniel Roca Morales, are responsible for the selection of the Tax Administrator.
The person who is elected in this process will be sworn as a superintendent of the SAT to cover a period of five years.
This is the conversation with the visible Guatemalan representative:
What is the importance of the choice of the new SAT superintendent?
Given the inherent relevance of his position, since the Superintendent is responsible for defining, developing and directing the functions of tax administration in Guatemala, he also has the great responsibility of fulfilling the goal of collection and to establish confidence in the population, he must continue with the modernization and digitalization of the institution.
What is your analysis of the election process by the Board of Directors?
The election process will undoubtedly have the work done by the previous Superintendent based on the tax collection goals and the work developed in the investigation and denunciation of a case that was very disseminated (B410).
Therefore, the profile of the new Superintendent should have independence for the continuation of this work and the challenges that are presented in the future.
In your opinion, what should be the livelihood in which directors should choose the suitable candidates?
Directors must be based on a technical profile specialized in tax law, but above all the honest trajectory of the applicant, as well as an absolute independence of the other powers to fulfill the main challenges of the institution.
The profile will be very supervised and, therefore, the experience and suitability of the candidates must be a priority for the election of the new superintendent.