The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Mescyt), through its curriculum management and in coordination with the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII), presented the “Program Proposal for the Tax Education Subject”, with the objective of training young Dominican university students to highlight the importance and value of the constitutional duty to pay taxes and compliance with citizen rights.
The head of the Mescyt, Dr. Franklin García Fermín, and the general director of the DGII, Luis Valdez Veras, agreed to support the offer in favor of contributing to the strengthening of moral values to raise the concept of social responsibility and that they contribute to the construction of citizenship.
They highlighted that the tax education subject is based on the need to adapt future professionals with the skills of knowledge, procedures, values and attitudes, which allow them to insert themselves into the tax environment of the Dominican Republic.
García Fermín affirmed that the subject will be taught in university courses and in other higher order technical training and that it has the purpose of reforming tax awareness through strengthening, collaboration, responsibility, cooperation and everything that contributes to the construction of a better nation.
He clarified that the initiative by the DGII and Mescyt constitute a great joint effort to achieve the welfare state for the benefit of the national community.
“I congratulate the director and the technicians of the Curriculum Department and in the same way I reiterate my congratulations to the staff of the General Directorate of Internal Taxes, for the work they have done so that both institutions can launch this offer that will have significance in human development. underlined García Fermín.
The head of the DGII, Luis ValdezYou will seestated that the initiative to present to the Ministry of Higher Education the proposal for the tax education subject program in universities arose because there is no tax education subject in the higher education system.
“We proposed, together with the tax education department, to propose to Mescyt, that it make the arrangements as the governing body of the higher education system, so that universities can have tax education in their curriculum. And with pleasure after the hard work between both institutions, we managed to present these proposals so that professionals can acquire the knowledge prior to the subject” added Valdez Veras.
Likewise, the director of the Mescyt curriculum, Israel Contreras, explained that through the subject students will be able to strengthen their knowledge to identify the regulations, laws and financial activities of the State, “based on the principles and powers that the laws confer on the DGII in the execution of tax rights and obligations”.
Present were the Vice Minister, José A. Cancel; the administrative director, Rafael Méndez; the coordinator of National Scholarships, Rafael Martínez, and personalities from the DGII, among other officials.