Issue date: 25 Sep, 2018
ANNIVERSARIES. 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATION OF SPAIN’S CENTRAL LAND REGISTRY AND TAX COOPERATION OFFICE.
The creation in 1987 of Spain’s Central Land Registry and Tax Cooperation Office established a real property and land registry office to meet the needs of modern Spain.
At that time, the country needed an updated land registry system, and a large budget was allocated to the new centre, which was intended to be a single body with a central location.
From then on, its main functions were training, reviewing and maintaining property registers; studying and coordinating property valuation systems at the national level; managing and inspecting territorial contributions; computerising land registries; and producing studies and statistics relating to land registries and property taxes.
The rate at which the Central Land Registry and Tax Cooperation Office was reviewing property records increased considerably from 1987.
Orthographic projection techniques were enhanced, and a plan was designed to create a giant puzzle where each year cadastral and cartographic information from groups of municipalities in different provinces would be added.
All of this represented a major advance in cartography techniques, making the new plans more reliable than the original information.
The 1987 plan to computerise the land registry and provide it with new resources evolved into the creation of a system of interrelated cartographic and alphanumerical property databases integrated into a single system called the Land Registry Information System.
The stamp features the Madrid headquarters of the Land Registry, in a building on Paseo de la Castellana.
The background of the stamp shows a typical land registry cartographic plan.
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