2111|PUBLIC OPINION AND FISCAL POLICY (XI)

— Topics that most concern Spaniards. — Often among the people of the environment there is talk of the functioning of public services. — Increased demand for public services and services in the last ten years. — Increase in the supply, in quality and quantity, of public services and services in the last ten years. — Valuation of public services and social benefits, in the event that the PP had been in the Government. — Opinion on the Government’s degree of responsibility for the well-being of citizens. — General opinion on taxes. — Degree of responsibility of Spaniards when paying taxes. — Consideration received by the family and society for the payment of taxes. — Opinion on how to finance certain public services: health, education, post and transport. — Assessment of the amount of resources that the State devotes to each of the public services. — Assessment of government administration: Central, Autonomous and Local, of the taxes it collects. At the present time, and comparing them with previous governments. — Preference between, more and better benefits with increased taxes, or pay less by reducing services. — Services that, if the State had to spend less, could be reduced. — Opinion on the amount of taxes that Spaniards pay, and comparison with other countries in Europe. — Justice in the distribution of tax payments. — Degree of tax fraud that exists in Spain. — Evaluation of the efforts of the administration in the fight against tax fraud and the results it achieves. — Opinion of how people, who know each other, make the income return and pay the VAT. — Motivations for paying taxes. — Taxes that you would dislike more/less that would go up. — Personal behavior when making the tax return. — Valuation of the hacienda offices. — Inspection of the income declaration, in recent years and probability that it will be done in the next few years. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote memory of the 1993 general election.