The members of the Board of Directors of the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT) announced the list of the five professionals, who obtained the best notes (greater than 60 points) to occupy the position of Superintendent to cover the period of five years in the election process.
For this Friday of Dolores, the election by the Board of Directors will be held and on Holy Monday will take possession for the 2025-2030 period.
The elected superintendent will accompany the administration of President Bernardo Arévalo in the execution of fiscal policy, and will have to reach a Q108 thousand 737 million collection goal that will be allocated to finance the public budget.
The election process began on February 27 when the public call for professionals of the economic, legal and financial sciences to which 31 candidates participated. After a purification, 14 applicants remained in the next round and this Friday was chosen to the five finalists.
Then, in the hands of the Board of Directors that are made up of the Minister of Finance, Jonathan Menkos as president and the directors, Adriana Estévez Clavería and Julio Otoniel Roca Morales, will be the decision of the next tax collector.
The professional who is elected in the following hours will replace Marco Livio Díaz Reyes, who concludes his term on April 14. Diaz Reyes resigned from participating in this new process by arguing health reasons.
Who are they?
In the list of the six finalist candidates there are professionals who have experience and knowledge that have made a career in the Tax Administrator, as well as in the academic part.
- Luis Fernando Cordón Morales
- Leonel Augusto Villamar Quiroa
- Oscar Alberto Hernández Romero
- Lilian Lissette War Ovalle de Contreras
- Werner Florencio Ovalle Ramírez
Main challenges
The international situation and trade distortions on a global scale due to the measures of tariff policy by the United States, is one of the factors that the new SAT holder must immediately face and avoid an impact on the collection of trade taxes.
Experts and specialists consulted by Free press They have expressed that achieving collection goals, digitizing and modernizing processes for paying taxes, controlling evasion and fraud, will be the main challenges.
At least it must maintain the pace of compliance with goals that Díaz Reyes brought in its management, which means that it must continue with the programs, as well as additional actions that allow it to raise the tax load in relation to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Among the main challenges are:
- Strengthening capacities for digital transformation that facilitates collection and control processes.
- Raise taxpayer service processes in order to raise credibility and transparency and finally promote tax culture through activities to promote voluntary compliance with taxpayers, in a more agile and efficient relationship of the administrator with different internal and external actors.
- Continuous control programs and audits.
- Facilitate the payment of taxpayers taxes with technological tools for practical and agile use.
- Achieve income collection goals set in the budget approved by the Congress of the Republic.
- Maintain the structure and strategic plan of the SAT in all intendancies with the purpose of continuing with a high taxpayer service standard.
- Reduce, through appropriate policies and strategies, smuggling and customs fraud.