On Friday 13 May, the White Paper on Tax Reform will be presented, which has been drawn up with the aim of making the tax system more efficient and modernising it to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

The presentation day begins on Friday 13 May at 9:30 am in the Salón de Grados of the Faculty of Economics (ground floor). The opening will be given by Francisco Muñoz Murgui, Dean of the Faculty of Economics; Rafael Beneyto Cabanes, Director General of Taxes and Gambling of the Generalitat Valenciana; and Amadeo Fuenmayor Fernández, Director of the Chair of Regional Taxation.

Jesús Ruiz-Huerta Carbonell, Professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University and President of the Committee of Experts for Tax Reform, will then give a lecture on the general lines of the White Paper and diagnosis of the tax system. María Teresa Soler Roch, Professor at the University of Alicante and member of the Committee of Experts, will focus her speech on Wealth taxation and fiscal co-responsibility. The last lecture, by Xavier Labandeira Villot, Professor at the University of Vigo and member of the Committee, will deal with Environmental Taxation.

This meeting is part of the series of Workshops organised by the University of Valencia, the Department of Applied Economics of the UV Faculty of Economics, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Model GVA, the Chair of Regional Taxation and its research group EVALPUB.

The White Paper is the result of the diagnostic work carried out by the Committee of experts commissioned by the Secretary of State for Finance by Resolution of 12 April 2021. The aim of this study is to serve as a basis for a reform of the tax system that guarantees the sustainability of public finances, so that it can respond to the financing of public expenditure, contributing to reducing the structural deficit and maintaining the Welfare State.