One of the entities dependent on the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the Island Tax Network, has obtained the highest score after the inspection of the Transparency Commissioner of the Government of the Canary Islands, who granted a score of 10 out of a maximum of 10 to the citizen consultation capacity offered by the Network through its Transparency Portal, where it makes available to taxpayers all the information and documentation they need to act with the Administration.
“The Commissioner evaluates the level of Transparency of the Public Administrations of the Canary Islands every year, and the Island Autonomous Body of Tax Management of the Cabildo of Lanzarote already obtained this level of excellence last year, when it was also scored with a 10”, commented the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo.
The island official also recalled that "a few days ago another entity dependent on the Cabildo, in this case the Security Consortium, achieved a score of 10" by the Transparency Commissioner. That encourages us because one of the objectives of our Government is to involve citizens in governance, making it extremely easy to provide all the tools we must develop to bring the Administration closer to the population”, said Corujo.
More resources, more efficiency
The Lanzarote Tax Network reached the highest possible score in the last two analyzed exercises, "thanks to the management it carries out of a Transparency Portal that allows all interested parties to access relevant information on the composition of the governing bodies of the Body, the island Institution's assets, contracts signed, agreements formalized, among other sections", they point out from the Cabildo.
Regarding this outstanding transparency index, the Councilor for Economy and Finance of the Cabildo, Rosa Callero, congratulated the staff of the Tax Network, “an autonomous body that we have reinforced with more staff and resources during this term because it was a deficit that it had been dragging since its creation”, she pointed out before clarifying that “the efficiency of the Transparency Portal is an obligation that we strictly comply with since it is a right of the administered; although it is even more satisfying that our work of informative clarity reaches the highest possible score from those who audit us”, asserts Rosa Callero.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote, in compliance with Law 19/2013, of December 9, on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance, has launched the institutional portals through which citizens can access all public information generated by the Corporation "in order to expand and reinforce the transparency of public activity, regulate and guarantee the right of access to information relating to it and establish the obligations of good governance that public officials must comply with".
