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Annual Report 2015

4.4.1. Transfer of information

For years, and increasingly, the Tax Agency has transferred information to other Public Administrations in order for them to carry out their entrusted functions and provide the citizens with the public services for which they are competent in the most efficient way. That information transfer generally requires the prior consent of the interested party.

The tax information provided in this manner to other public organisms, apart from saving citizens millions of trips each year to request tax certificates and reducing procedure times and management costs in the Administrations, has contributed to avoid and fight frauds when obtaining social benefits, subsidies or government aid.

As a consequence of the information transfer agreements to other Administrations, during 2015 the Tax Agency dealt with over 60.5 million requests for information relating to Personal Income Tax (approximately one-half from the Health Ministry) and over 7 million certificates of being up-to-date with tax obligations.

Also, the Tax Agency supplies information to the Courts, Tribunals and members of the Prosecution Service. During 2015, the framework stipulated in the Collaboration agreement with the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Ministry of Justice has been bolstered, such that the normalised supplies of information that have been carried out directly and automatically through the Judicial Neutral Point managed by the CGPJ have totalled around 9.5 million. In addition, 15,850 non-normalised requests for information have been processed.

Currently, the tax figures of a statistical nature serve to reduce the sample sizes of the surveys carried out by bodies such as the Spanish Statistical Office, the National Social Security Institute, the Banco de España and the Ministry of Public Works.  On the other hand, the use of administrative records of a fiscal origin is widespread for large scale statistical operations for citizens, such as the Labour Force, Labour Costs, Industrial, Services and Foreign Trade Surveys, among others.