Five months after the end of the Income Tax payment period (June 30), and with barely 15 days left until the end of the year, the Treasury (Hacienda) has still not refunded the amounts from the last Income Tax declaration to 643,000 taxpayers. If it fails to do so before December 31, it will have to pay late payment interest (intereses de demora) for the delay, provided that the liquidation…
The Taxpayer Defense Council explains that it “doesn’t seem reasonable” that rising prices should lead to an increase in taxpayers’ tax bills. The Council is denouncing what many experts have already pointed out: that not deflating the tax brackets when there have been years with inflation above 8% (8.4% in 2022, 3.5% in 2023, and 3.2% in 2024) constitutes a significant, hidden increase in the tax burden. This is because…
The Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea) has calculated that the non-adjustment for inflation of the Personal Income Tax (IRPF) for a family of four with a gross income of €50,000 has led to a 30% increase in the tax bill, although the effects are even greater in proportional terms for lower incomes. In its latest report, Fedea has analyzed the consequences of not updating the tax scale and the…
The government’s refusal to deflate the income tax rate has allowed Spain to close the year 2024 with a record tax collection, close to €300 billion. This does not prevent the government from proposing new tax increases in 2025. Some have already come into effect on January 1. Others will do so in the coming months:– Corporate Tax: Multinational companies with a turnover of more than €750 million will pay…
Reconciling the support of center-right nationalist parties, such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) or Junts per Catalunya (the party of the fugitive Puigdemont), with that of extreme left parties (Podemos, Sumar…) was possible a year ago, to elevate Pedro Sánchez to the presidency of the Government despite having lost the elections. Spain has never had a weaker government, more willing to stay in power by making the necessary concessions…
Aurelio Medel (5 Días) | In Spain, Parliament remains trapped by the whims of minor parties that support Pedro Sánchez’s Government, putting him in the position of either adopting their clientelist interests or renouncing to govern. The political negotiation regarding the tax on banks and energy companies, sectors that have historically been attributed with the greatest capacity for influence in Spain, is a vivid portrait of the blackmail from these…
The tax on energy companies, which the Government created due to the recent inflation crisis and wanted to make permanent, will expire on December 31. This comes after the period for submitting amendments to the bill aimed at achieving that permanence has concluded. The Treasury did not gain the support of Junts – crucial for advancing the initiative. The elimination of the tax on electricity companies will result in a…
Yesterday, Wednesday 3 April, the window for filing online personal income tax returns for 2023 opened. The campaign will run until 1 July and 23,281,000 returns are expected to be filed, 1.2% more than last year. Of these, almost 63% – 14.6 million, 3% less – are expected to be entitled to a refund, for an estimated amount of €11.65 billion. On the other hand, the Treasury estimates that more…
The Instituto de Estudios Económicos (IEE) pointed out on Tuesday that the tax burden in Spain had reached historic highs in 2022, exceeding 42% of GDP and standing above the EU average (41.7%) for 2021 – the last year for which data are available. “The tax effort, i.e. the tax burden normalised according to income, is already 53% higher than the EU average”, warned the IEE President, Íñigo Fernández de…
Spain is amongst the countries with the least competitive tax system in the OECD. This is according to the new edition of the tax competitiveness ranking prepared by the Tax Foundation, in which Spain appears in 34th place out of a total of 38. This position, which represents a loss of two places compared to the 2021 edition and eight compared to 2020, leaves Spain ahead of only Ireland, Portugal,…