to the State Public Sector in the voluntary payment period. The collection, through enforcement, of public revenue due to the General State Administration and associated or dependent Public agencies. Participation in the persecution of certain offences, including offences against the Public Treasury and offences related to contraband of goods. Likewise, other autonomous and local bodies manage own taxes and transferred taxes. The mission of the Tax Agency is to encourage all citizens to discharge their tax duties. It performs two lines of action to achieve this: on the one hand, the provision of information and assistance services for taxpayers in order to minimise the indirect costs associated with meeting tax obligations and, on the other, through the detection and correction of tax defaults through control actions. Government of the agency The head of the AEAT is the President, a position hold always by the person who holds the office of Secretary of State for Finance. As such, the office of AEAT President is held ex officio by a government official which is appointed by the Council of Ministers at the request of the Minister of Finance. Due to this, the chief executive of the agency is the Director-General, which has the rank of Under Secretary. The Director-General is appointed in the same way that the President. Structure President of the AEAT Superior Council for the Management and Coordination of Tax Management Standing Steering Committee Coordination Committee of the Territorial Directorate Committee on Security and Control Director-General of the AEAT Cabinet Internal Audit Service Comptroller Delegation. Support Unit to the Special Prosecutor (economic crimes). Department for Tax Management Department for Financial and Tax Inspection Department for Tax Collections Department for Customs and Special Taxes HR Department Department for Tax Computing Legal Service Economic Management Service Taxation and Statistics Service Planning and Institutional Relations Service Central Delegation for Great Contributors Special Delegations The agency is organized in 17 special delegations, one for each autonomous community. Of these, it depends 39 smallest delegations and another 31 special delegations for customs and special taxes. With competencies throughout the national territory, there is the Central Delegation for Great Taxpayers (which are persons or companies which contribute a lot or with some specials taxes). See also Similar revenue services: Internal Revenue Service, United States of America. HM Revenue and Customs, United Kingdom. Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos, Argentina. Australian Taxation Office, Australia. Secretaria da Receita Federal