2462|PUBLIC OPINION AND FISCAL POLICY (XIX)

— Assessment of the degree of responsibility of Spaniards when fulfilling their duties and obligations as citizens. Degree of personal responsibility — Valuation of 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 currently exists in Spain, compared to that that existed five years ago. — Assessment of the Administration’s efforts to combat tax fraud — Opinion on the number of people who defraud in the income return. Main cause that motivates the decrease in fraud in the declaration of income — Opinion on the amount of fraud in the VAT return — Agreement with various phrases on the consequences of tax fraud — Tax that would dislike more/less if it went up: Income tax or VAT — Obligation to file the Income Declaration this year. Balance of this year’s income declaration — Opinion on the time it took this year to make the returns, compared to the previous year — Person/entity who completed the declaration. Main reason why you went to a manager/advisor to complete the declaration — Inspection of the income declaration in the last five years, and probability that it will be done in the coming years. Result of the inspection — Personal visit, in the last year, to some office of the Tax Agency — Degree of satisfaction with the treatment received in the offices of the Tax Agency. Assessment of the information and attention service to the taxpayer, current and compared with 5 years ago — Opinion on the amount to be spent by the State in relation to what it collects. Opinion on the amount to be spent by the current Government in relation to revenue — Opinion on the amount of the government deficit in relation to last year — Opinion on the extent to which the State should spend only what it enters, indebtedness or increase taxes in the event of increased expenditure on health, education, etc. — Valuation of the administration of the money raised, carried out by the current Government compared to the previous ones — Opinion on the reason behind the reduction of the public deficit: the state spends less or more people pay taxes — Opinion on how spending is distributed between the central government, the autonomous community and the municipalities — Opinion on which of the three best manages the money collected by taxes — Opinion on whether the state should spend less money than the tax collector so that the Autonomies could spend more — Opinion on whether part of the money that the Autonomies spend should be spent by the City Councils — Opinion on whether the State should act to avoid excessive indebtedness of Autonomies and Municipalities — Assessment of the extent to which public undertakings have been privatised in the last five years — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee — Remembrance of vote in the general elections of March 2000