Publications - Tax
COVID-19 Special Newsletter - Spain | May 18 and May 31
New guarantee facility, extension of ERTE temporary layoff procedures, effects of the crisis on transfer pricing, return to judicial activity and ‘shields’ for businesses.
COVID-19: The health crisis may affect the analysis, pricing and documentation of controlled transactions
The current international health emergency is having a huge impact in every area, including tax, and will foreseeably have lasting effects. Transfer pricing is not immune to this situation and its consequences are being felt in elements such as…
Tax reform: What tax hikes can we expect?
Despite the economic situation caused by the current health crisis, there is still talk of approval in the short term of the “Google tax” and “Tobin tax”; and some speculation has appeared over a potential corporate income…
COVID-19: Portuguese government temporarily subjects masks and disinfectant gel to the reduced VAT rate
As announced by the Portuguese Government, Law no. 13/2020, of 7 May, was finally published, which came into force on the day after its publication and provides for the temporary application of the following VAT measures:
COVID-19: The European Commission expands the Temporary Framework to allow authorization of state aid in the form of recapitalization and subordinated debt measures
On May 8, 2020 the European Commission announced a second amendment to the Temporary Framework adopted on March 19, 2020, amended for the first time on April 3, 2020, in which the framework is extended to allow aid to…
COVID-19 Special Newsletter - Spain | Week between May 11 and May 17
Phase 1 of the ‘scaling-down’ process, third tranche of guarantees, extension of ERTE temporary layoffs, potential delay in the application of VAT directives and of DAC6, and measures to support the cultural sector
The European Commission proposes postponing entry into force of VAT directives on e-commerce for goods and of exchange of information requirements under DAC6
The crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 has led Brussels to propose the entry into force of VAT directives 2017/2455 and 2019/1995 on July 31, 2021; and to propose new time periods for the filing and exchange of information under Council…
2019 personal income tax filing season: The amortizable cost of real state assets acquired by inheritance or gift is limited to expenses and taxes incurred when they were acquired
Article 23 of Personal Income Tax Law 35/2006, of November 28, 2006, states that net income from real estate capital is calculated by deducting certain types of expenses and reductions from gross income. Among the expenses, amounts in respect of the…
May 15 is the last day of the time limit for applications for AEAT's acknowledgment of rights to the tax benefits associated with events of exceptional public interest
Article 27 of Law 49/2002, of December 23, on the tax regime for not-for-profit entities and for tax incentives to patronage, defines the tax benefits available for any activities carried out to ensure adequate arrangements for events of exceptional…
Tax Newsletter - April 2020
COVID-19: Tax measures approved to support donations and the cultural sector
The May 6 edition of the Official State Gazette published Royal Decree-Law 17/2020, of May 5, 2020, approving measures to support the cultural sector and tax measures to confront the social and economic impact of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Special Newsletter - Spain | Week between May 4 and May 10
Reopening to the public of establishments, effects of RDL 16/2020 on procedural, insolvency and tax matters, labor measures in preparation for de-escalation and news on administrative procedures