excessive growth of cities, without any planning to regulate them, has generated
disorder, densely built sectors, highly inhabited and with numerous activities. (Lupera,
Moscoso and Guerrero, 2018).
The Tax Administration Service of Trujillo - SATT, is a Decentralized Public Body of the
Provincial Municipality of Trujillo, with legal status of Internal Public Law and with
administrative, economic, budgetary and financial autonomy; its purpose is to organize
and execute the administration, inspection and collection of all tax and non-tax revenues
of the Provincial Municipality of Trujillo, in order to achieve the projected goal and, by
trying to increase tax collection.
Currently, there is a department in charge of the collection of Municipal Taxes: The
Department of Collection and Debt Control, executing its own procedures and
processes in order to improve the achievement of the collection goals planned for each
month. To date, the collection and debt control department is mainly engaged in three
specific activities: ordinary collection (internal and external collection), securities
management and coercive collection.
The SATT in its daily work and commitment to continuous improvement, permanently
seeks to innovate mechanisms that allow it to continue collecting municipal taxes,
however, there are certain weaknesses that prevent improving the level of collection,
such as many taxpayers who are not yet registered, which evade their tax commitment,
likewise, there are taxpayers who make changes in their properties and do not declare;
On the other hand, there is no exact data available to validate the data of taxpayers
already registered, which makes it difficult to enforce the debt they have, in some cases
even leading to the prescription of the debt. For Alain Touraine, modernization indicates
the capacity of a social system to produce modernity, as well as the willingness of social
or political actors to transform society. (Cruz and López, 2020)The political economy
approach starts from the idea that taxes are a political inconvenience, since being
unpopular by nature, they demand consensus building between government and society.
(Gutiérrez, 2018).
Similarly, it should be considered that taxpayers in Trujillo do not have an adequate tax
culture, since they do not take into account that taxation is not only a legal obligation,
but a duty of each person before society, which will contribute to the state's ability to
comply with its constitutional obligation to ensure the common good and provide the
population with the basic services it requires, mainly from the taxes paid by taxpayers
(Bugos, 2007). This has caused the SATT to maintain high delinquency rates, which
makes it necessary to establish joint strategies to minimize the difficulties encountered
in order to increase the levels of daily, weekly and monthly collection.
Failure to comply with an obligation is legally called delinquency, and therefore a debtor
who delays in his payment obligation is considered delinquent. In 2013, SATT
administered taxes with an average delinquency rate of 53.1%, with vehicle tax having
the highest delinquency rate (63.5%), followed by citizen security (60.9%).
It should also be taken into account that both the population and the rulers should be
concerned about community development through the payment of their taxes, it is