The Surplus Income paid by the Central Bank to the Exchequer in respect of 2005 was € million. An amount of € million, representing the net proceeds of coin issued during the year, was also transferred to the Exchequer.
But even if we pare down our data requests to the essentials, we will still request tremendous amounts of data. 2  BIS central bankers’ speeches  By the way, let’s not trick ourselves – if there were no complaints at all, I would wonder whether we were doing a good job! And we need the data to do this job correctly.