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.

The signing in 2020 of numerous agreements for the provision of information stands out, among which it is worth mentioning those signed with the General Council of Notaries, the General Mutuality of 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 consequence of the agreements for the transfer of information to other Administrations, the Tax Agency has responded, during 2020, to more than 80.1 million requests for information related to the Personal Income Tax (approximately 33.4 million of the Ministry of Health) and nearly 7.2 million certificates of being up to date with tax obligations.

Likewise, the Tax Agency supplies 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 carried out directly and automated through the Judicial Neutral Point managed by the CGPJ, they have amounted to more than 9.3 million. In addition, 8,216 non-standardized 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 for 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, business censuses (DIRCE) and agrarian census. It has also collaborated with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration for the implementation of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV). Collaboration has also been essential to provide AIREF with the necessary data for this body to carry out the Peer Review of the fiscal benefits of the main taxes.