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.

In 2020, numerous information supply agreements were signed, including those signed with the General Council of Notaries, the General Mutual Fund for Civil Servants of the State, the Ministry of Justice, the Social Institute of the Navy, the Official Credit Institute and the General Secretariat of Universities.

As a result of the agreements for the transfer of information to other Administrations, the Tax Agency has attended, during 2020, more than 80.1 million requests for information related to Personal Income Tax (approximately 33.4 million from the Ministry of Health) and nearly 7.2 million certificates of being up to date with tax obligations.

Likewise, the Tax Agency provides information to the Courts, Tribunals and members of the Public Prosecutor's Office. During 2020, within the framework stipulated in the Collaboration Agreement with the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Ministry of Justice, the standardized supplies that have been made directly and automatically through the Judicial Neutral Point managed by the CGPJ, have amounted to more than 9.3 million. In addition, 8,216 non-standard 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 fiscal origin is widely used for statistical operations of great importance to citizens such as the Active Population Survey, the Labor Costs Survey, the Industrial Survey, the Services Survey, and the Foreign Trade Survey, among others, and in the formation of population and business censuses (DIRCE) and the agricultural census. It has also collaborated with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration to launch the Minimum Vital Income (IMV). Collaboration has also been essential in providing AIREF with the data necessary for this body to carry out the Peer Review of the tax benefits of the main taxes.