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TGR's AI Voice Agent — Chile's Treasury Resolves 60% of Tax-Season Calls Without a Human

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 74% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

During Chile's 2025 tax season, the Treasury's (TGR) new AI voice agent autonomously resolved 60% of taxpayer phone enquiries — serving over 43,000 callers with 99% operational adherence — up from roughly half of calls answered during peak demand before the system existed.

60 %
Calls autonomously resolved by the AI voice agent (Operación Renta 2025)
43,000+ callers
Callers served by the AI voice agent (Operación Renta 2025)
99 %
Operational adherence (Operación Renta 2025)
TGR's AI Voice Agent — Chile's Treasury Resolves 60% of Tax-Season Calls Without a Human

Details

Promoter
Tesorería General de la República (TGR)
Period
2024-2026
Keywords
tax administration, public finance, contact-centre automation

Context

Chile's Tesoríría General de la República (TGR) had historically been able to answer only about half of the phone enquiries it received during the peak demand of the annual income-tax filing period, Operación Renta. Working with technology partner CGS Nexus, TGR developed an AI voice agent in the second half of 2024, trained to handle more than 50 categories of tax-related enquiries and to automatically transfer callers needing sensitive records or judgement beyond its scope to a human executive, along with the full conversation history.

Activities

The agent entered public operation for the first time during Operación Renta 2025 and continued operating through Operación Renta 2026.

Results

During Operación Renta 2025 the agent autonomously resolved 60% of the calls it handled, serving more than 43,000 people with 99% operational adherence, and — according to TGR and CGS Nexus — virtually eliminated call abandonment during peak periods while cutting average handling time. These figures come from TGR and its vendor via Chilean press coverage rather than an independently published evaluation, and no data on caller satisfaction, error rates, or outcomes for the 40% of calls still requiring a human have been disclosed.

Implementation

Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Built in the second half of 2024, launched during Operación Renta 2025, continued into Operación Renta 2026.
Staffing & skills
Tesoríría General de la República (TGR) staff, Technology vendor CGS Nexus (AI voice agent developer)

Conditions for success

  • Automatic escalation to human staff with full conversation history for sensitive or complex cases
  • Training the agent across 50+ enquiry categories relevant to tax-season demand

Common failure modes

  • No published data on outcomes for the ~40% of calls still requiring a human
  • No caller satisfaction or error-rate data disclosed

Where it fits

Governance type
national tax agency
Scale
national
Income level
high income (Chile)

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