The government has officially announced the use of a new "silver bullet," and Jorge Trujillo will take over as the director of the Internal Revenue Service (SII).

The government officially announced the use of the eighth "silver bullet" this Tuesday morning. This refers to the direct appointment without a public competition via the High Public Management (ADP) for up to 12 assigned positions, a power that can only be exercised during the first three months of a new administration. After the use of this mechanism was officially announced for seven positions last Saturday, the eighth was confirmed this Tuesday: the national director of the Internal Revenue Service (SII).

Through a decree published in the Official Gazette, President José Antonio Kast and Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz formalized the use of this authority for the regulatory body. "The application of the selection mechanism for high public executives and the provisions of the first to fourth paragraphs of article fifty-seventh of law No. 19,882 is exempted for the position of director of the Internal Revenue Service, of First Hierarchical Level, assigned to the High Public Management System," the text states.

This paves the way for the appointment of engineer Jorge Trujillo as the new director, who will replace the current acting director, Carolina Saravia. Trujillo was an executive at the multinational technology company Sicpa. He is a civil industrial engineer from the University of Chile and held key roles at the SII in the early 2000s, serving as director of Large Taxpayers from 2002 to 2008, with Juan Toro and Ricardo Escobar as national directors, while between March 2006 and December 2008 he was the deputy director of Taxation of the entity.

He later served as the tax area manager at Telefónica from 2010 to 2012. He holds a master's degree in International Administration from the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Spain - one of the traditional postgraduate programs undertaken by senior executives of the SII. One of the first decisions Trujillo will have to make as head of the SII will be whether or not to disqualify himself from participating in decisions involving the company Sicpa, as it is currently responsible for tracking the application of the specific tax on tobacco, one of the main sources of tax evasion in the country through smuggling.

In this way, Trujillo surpasses other names that were mentioned in the race for the SII, such as civil industrial engineer Iván Beltrand from the University of Chile, who is currently the general manager and partner of the systems engineering company BinaryBag and was head of the Department of Taxpayer Attention and Assistance at the SII from January 2006 to December 2008, and deputy director of Taxation from December 2008 to April 2013. He holds an MBA from the University of Chile; commercial engineer and auditor from the University of Santiago and historical former partner of PwC, Germán Campos, who is now dedicated to consulting through his firm GC and spent over 36 years at PwC; and the same Carolina Saravia.