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 of the following Agreements in 2022 stands out: with the National Social Security Institute and the Independent Fiscal Responsibility Authority AAI for the transfer of information related to the Minimum Living Income; with the General Judicial Mutuality, regarding the transfer of tax information; with the General Secretariat of Objectives and Policies of Inclusion and Social Welfare and the National Social Security Institute, regarding the transfer of information for statistical purposes; with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism (State Secretary for Commerce) regarding the transfer of information for statistical purposes; with the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, for the provision of information for non-tax purposes; among others.

As a consequence of the agreements for the transfer of information to other Administrations, the Tax Agency has responded, during 2022, to more than 100 million requests for information related to the Personal Income Tax (approximately 34.9 million from the Ministry of Health ) and nearly 8.5 million certificates of being up to date with tax obligations.

In this manner, the Tax Agency supplies information to the Courts, Tribunals and members of the Public Treasury. During 2022, 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 automated through the Judicial Neutral Point managed by the CGPJ , have amounted to more than 10.3 million. In addition, 10,124 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 tax benefits of the main taxes.