The Tax Agency collected 16,675 million in 2022 through 39,366 nominal control actions related to large companies, the assets of natural persons, corporate abuses and the fight against the underground economy. Revenue increased by 2.7% compared to 2021.
Actions on large companies, multinationals and corporate groups consumed most of the resources. In 2022, they monopolized 29,394 inspections, 8.9% more. Against this figure, 2,971 inspections were patrimonial and corporate analysis and 5,594 were related to the concealment of activity and the abuse of corporate forms. The figure of 39,366 checks is completed with 1,407 actions that have revealed hidden sales within the framework of the control of economic activities.
All these data were published yesterday by the Ministry of Finance and Civil Service and are part of the control activity carried out by the Tax Agency during the past year. There were 1,889,000 internal tax control actions, 5.2% more than the previous year, and 16.1% more than 2020, figures that also exceed pre-pandemic levels in practically all great types of performances.
In the field of international taxation of large multinational companies, last year the Tax Agency regularized taxable bases for an amount of 3,409 million euros with a total of 117 inspections carried out by the Central Delegation of Large Taxpayers and the other delegations, with the support of the National Office of International Taxation (ONFI). The amount of these regularized taxable bases is in line with the average of the previous three years, the Treasury reported.
The large estates also saw an increase in control actions. Specifically, the Tax Agency carried out 1,130 inspections that led to the liquidation of debt for an amount of 546 million. From 2018, the year of creation of the Central Coordination Unit for the Control of Relevant Assets, until 2022, more than 2,400 million euros have been settled in this area in more than 4,400 verification files.
In 2022 the checks started affected 252 high estates. Of these checks that were carried out, actions were finalized for a total settled amount of 28.2 million euros in 97 taxpayers. These assets were artificially located in other countries and it has been determined that their effective residence was actually located in Spain.
