The Board of Directors Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT) He received 31 candidate files to participate in the election process of the new Superintendent that will cover a period of five years, after the call made on February 27.
In a month, that is, next Holy Monday, the board of the SAT presided by the Minister of Finance, Jonathan Menkos Zeissig, the director Adriana Estévez Claveria and the director Julio Otoniel Roca Morales, must give possession to the Professional of the Economic, Financial and Legal Sciences that is elected.
The first process of the process is the list of the applicants who presented this Thursday, March 13, the requirements and forms that were raised in the public call, as well as the fulfillment of these.
The Board of Directors decided as the only day to receive the files this Thursday, March 13 and scheduled various phases before April 11, when the election will be held.
The collection goal for this fiscal year is Q108 thousand 737 million that will be allocated to finance public spending.
Who participates?
Among the participants are professionals from the economic, financial and legal sciences, who have worked and carry out a career in the Tax Administrator, others as independent professionals, tax consultants, who presented a work program as one of the requirements.
Among the list of the 31 participants, there are recognized professionals who have links with the tax administrator.
It highlights the participation of Saúl Figueroa Avalos, former Minister of Finance and was the substitute president of the Board of Directors; Former Director Alejandro González Portocarrero and former director Liliana Castillo Martínez -three have in common that they did work with Estévez Clavería.
The former inspection, Leonel Augusto Villamar Quiroa, and the current medium -contributing medium -sized, Evelyn Jeaneth Quevedo López and other Current SAT officials and other SAT officials.
In the list, the attention of two candidates is attracted: Óscar Hernández, current mayor of Supervision and Werner Ovalle, current fifth vice minister of the Interior, but served as former customs of Customs until January 2024.
Also, the former deputy and councilor of the Municipality of Guatemala Rodolfo Neutze Aguirre appears in the list.
Short -term challenges
Hernández, acknowledged that his interest in participating is for the good work that was done, there are challenges to fulfill, because not everything is achieved in five years.
“Now it is not only to think of inspection, but in all areas. I presented a plan to hold the collection goals, in better attention to taxpayers, strengthen issues in customs and many factors that we evaluate now; The plan seeks continuous improvement especially in technology, ”said Hernández.
Ovalle, declared that, at the beginning of the process, the SAT is characterized by being a transparent institution and recalled that it was in a period of eight continuous years as a customs mayor that was the reason to present the file to be evaluated.
On his work plan, he explained that his approach is in internal taxes, attacking the issue of evasion, the strengthening of foreign trade and everything related to international risk management.
List of applicants:
In your delivery order to the reception board:
- Luis Fernando Cordón Morales
- Arculio Luis Velasquez Orozco
- Mario René Álvarez Galán
- Rodrigo José Bonilla Recinos
- Byron Enrique Ochoa Paredes
- Hugo Ovidio Chacón Cabrera
- Saúl Octavio Figueroa Ávalos
- Melvin Giovanni Portillo Arévalo
- David Ricardo Cristiani Flores
- Moisés Santiago Batz Aguilar
- Amparo Veraly Marchorro Girón
- Alejandro González Portocarrero
- Carlos Humberto Echeverría Guzmán
- William Armando Morales Carranza
- Nolberto de la Rosa Ramírez
- Manuel Tix Yac
- Mario Alejandro Quevedo Alay
- Carlos Salvador González de la Cruz
- Silvia Liliana Castillo Martinez
- Leonel Augusto Villamar Quiroa
- Raymond Hugo David Menéndez Esquivel
- Oscar Alberto Hernández Romero
- Lilian Lissette Guerra Ovalle
- Ramón Antonio Felipe Fion Montero
- Evelyn Jeaneth Quevedo Lopez
- Werner Florencio Ovalle Ramírez
- Rafael Monroy Ruch
- Carlos Herrera Torres
- José Rodolfo Neutze Aguirre
- José Ramón Lam Ortiz
- José Humberto Ruiz Lal
What is coming
In the official program to follow, these are the following steps defined by the Board of Directors:
- On March 14: Publication of the List of Applicants to opt for Superintendent.
- From March 14 to 18: Presentation or reception of accusations or impediments and notification in two days.
- March 18 to 20: Clarification and fading of signs in two days.
- From March 22 to 21: Review of files by the Board of Directors.
- March 24: Publication of Listing of Applicants who meet requirements and that continue in the process and those that were excluded.
- From April 2 to 7: Interviews.
- From April 8 to 11: evaluation and qualification.
- April 11: List publication of applicants who have obtained 60 points or more. That day the directory makes the selection.
- April 14: Possession.