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 2021 of the new agreements for the provision of information and the exchange of information and collaboration in collection management with local entities between the Tax Agency and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces stands out. Likewise, the agreement with the City of Ceuta regarding the provision of information for non-tax purposes. Agreements have also been signed for access to information from the Tax Agency by the Provincial Councils of A Coruña, Alicante and Tarragona.

As a consequence of the agreements for the transfer of information to other Administrations, the Tax Agency has responded, during 2021, to nearly 100 million requests for information related to the Personal Income Tax (approximately 34.3 million from the Ministry of Health) and nearly 7.5 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 2021, 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 10.8 million. In addition, 11,102 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. 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.

The transfer of information by the Tax Agency has been especially relevant during 2021 to facilitate the implementation of the different extraordinary measures to support business solvency approved in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as direct aid to certain entrepreneurs. and professionals managed by the Autonomous Communities and Cities, or those managed by the Official Credit Institute.

In addition, the transfer of information to the INSS for adequate management of the Minimum Living Income has been improved, as well as that carried out to the State Public Employment Service to facilitate the management of ERTE.