DONATION TAX IN GALICIA – updated 2023
Regulated by LEGISLATIVE DECREE 1/2011, of July 28, which approves the consolidated text of the legal provisions of the Autonomous Community of Galicia regarding taxes ceded by the State. – Official Gazette of Galicia of 20-10-201 I.- TAXABLE BASE The amount received in Donation. II.- REDUCTION IN THE TAXABLE BASE: In addition to the expenses […]
WEALTH TAX IN ANDALUCIA – ABOLISHED? 2022
Decree-Law 7/2022, of September 20, has modified Autonomous Law 5/2021 in such a way that a new article 25 bis is created, according to which it is established that, after the deductions and bonuses regulated by the regulations of the State, a regional bonus of 100% of said fee will be applied to the resulting […]
FISCAL-CATASTRAL VALUE AND SPANISH PROPERTY TAX – RESALES
“COMPLEMENTARIALETTERS” from the Spanish tax office when you bought a bargain property (cheap price) In the last few years, we have been seeing clients who received letters from the regional tax office were they’d been asked for additional tax due on the purchase of their properties. The concept is easy to explain: under Spanish law, […]
TAXES TO PAY IN SPAIN FOR INHERITANCE RECEIVED ABROAD
TAXES FOR INHERITANCES RECEIVED ABROAD SPAIN What taxes must be paid on an inheritance when it comes from abroad? In the event that a tax resident in Spain receives assets or money from inheritances located abroad, said assets, money, insurance premiums, bank accounts, etc. must be declared. in Spain. To do this, you must proceed […]
AJD – ACTOS JURIDICOS DOCUMENTADOS – STAMP DUTY TAX
AJD- ACTOS JURIDICOS DOCUMENTADOS – “STAMP DUTY” IN PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS In the first place , it must be specified when the general regime of the common territory is applicable and when the regional regime In the common regime , the ITP and AJD is one of the taxes whose yield is transferred to the autonomous […]
EUROPEAN CERTIFICATE OF SUCESSION-INHERITANCE
It is a public document harmonised in the European Union that can be used by heirs, legatees and executors of the will or administrators of the estate to invoke, in another Member State, to prove their conditions and rights as heirs, and the ways to participate and regulate a determinate inheritance. The purpose of this […]
DUPLICITY OF WILLS – TESTAMENT VALIDATION – SPANISH INHERITANCE PROCESS
MULTIPLE WILLS – DUPLICITY OF WILLS Can a person make several wills and have them be valid? The answer is yes. There can be several Wills in a person’s name, and all of them can be valid, regardless of the date they were signed. There is a widespread belief that only the last testament is […]
DAFO – LEGALIZATION OF ANDALUCIAN PROPERTIES IN ABSENCE OF BUILDING PERMIT
In Andalucia, as well as in many other regions in Spain, there are plenty of constructions built with the proper building license. These constructions can be subjected to fines, penalizations, or even orders to demolish them by the administration. In 2012, the Regional Government established a procedure of legalization of properties called “DECLARACION DE SITUACION […]
Ways to know who owns a property in Spain. How to detect who is the owner?
Sometimes it is necessary to know who owns a certain property in order to contact him for different reasons. Either from a commercial point of view, to check the possibilities of selling said property , or, from a legal point of view in the case of obtaining any type of information that may be useful […]
RETURN OF DOUBLE IN CASE OF RESERVATION CONTRACT
CAN A BUYER CLAIM THE RETURN OF DOUBLE THE DEPOSIT DELIVERED TO THE OWNER? In real estate purchase and sale transactions we often find the phase of the procedure known as “ Reservation ”. This is the case in which the buyer, once the property has been chosen, and the price and purchase conditions are […]