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Annual Report 2015

2.2. Staff and budget

For the execution of its mission, at 31 December 2015 the Tax Agency had a staff of 25,429 people, 1.22% fewer than in 2014, of whom 52.83% are women and 47.17% men, with an average age of 51.14 years (0.69 years more than in 2014).

The organisation of the Tax Agency bases its management on the high degree of specialisation and qualification of the professionals who compose it, in addition to intensive use of the new technologies.

The charts of the Annex set out below show the principal figures regarding the staff of the Tax Agency:

Table 4. Total workforce (Annex) Chart nº 5. Distribution between Central Services and Territorial Services 2014-2015 (Annex) Graph nº 6. Distribution by areas 2014-2015 (Annex) Graph nº 7. Distribution by subgroups 2014-2015 (Annex) Graph nº 8. Distribution by gender 2014-2015 (Appendix)

The performance of the Tax Agency's function of prevention and fight against tax and customs fraud is based on the work of its employees. A performance index has been developed to measure in average terms the contribution of each employee of the Tax Agency to the results of the fight against fraud, that is, the euros obtained in the fight against fraud, on average, by each employee. This is calculated via the Revenues/Staff ratio:

  • The numerator consists of the revenues obtained every year in the fight against tax and customs fraud.

  • The denominator consists of the total number of civil servants of the Tax Agency at 31 December of each year. Bear in mind that, in addition to the fight against fraud, the Tax Agency's objectives also include providing information and assistance to taxpayers, managing the collection of taxes, and customs procedures and surveillance.

In 2015, each employee of the Tax Agency has obtained, on average, 615,989 euros in the fight against fraud.

Details and graphs related to this question are found in the following chart of the Annex:

Table 9. Performance index (Annex)

In 2015, the Tax Agency had a budget of 1,382 million euros. The total cost amounted to 1,361.2 million euros, 3.6% more than in 2014. The Tax Agency applies these resources to the fulfilment of its objectives in the most efficient way possible. The distribution of recognised obligations by chapters is shown in the following chart of the Annex:

Table 10. Distribution of expenditure by chapters. Comparison 2014-2015 (Appendix)