Tax return

You can be fined for not submitting a return, even if it is a ‘nil’ one.

Those words again - “I’ve been told”.

Thankyou Peter 

You have until the 1st of June next year before the portal opens to submit returns for 2022. If your affairs are straightforward, collate your income in each category - pension (separate if any is a Crown pension) bank interest etc, then do your own return just as you would a self-assessment in the UK.

It takes about ten minutes to fill in the form on the helpful tax website, using your copy of your last return as a guide. Cost? Nothing.

Thankyou for that information Peter ,as we get charged every year for this .Gave you the link for the portal please ,regards 

If you mean” can you give me the link” it is https://sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/en_gb/inicio.html

Set the language (top right) to English and spend a bit of time getting your head round it - you have six months to study!

Much appreciated Peter thankyou 

Interestingly I was told I didn't need to do a return by an well known accountant in the Port!

A guide compiled by a very experienced Brit who has lived in Spain for 30+ years, and whose advice I have found to be 100% good. The figures may not be up to date but the rules are:

“Who has to make a tax declaration?
If you are in legal employment you will normally pay the Spanish equivalent of PAYE. If your income is under €22000 and from only one source you are not required to declare but it may be advantageous to do so.

If your income is less than €12000 you do not need to declare unless you have more than one source of income and the second and subsequent incomes exceed €1500. Two pensions would count as two sources of income even though you would add them together on your declaration.

If you have investment income of more than €1600 you must declare.

If you have rental income of €1000+ you must declare

If your total income from all sources is less than €1000 you do not need to declare.

If you are self employed or running a business you will have to declare no matter what your income is.

These figures apply to the income of the family unit. You cannot decide on separate taxation and each get this exemption.

You can see from this that apart from some wage earners almost everyone else is obliged to make a tax declaration.

Note that you can be fined up to €200 for not submitting a tax declaration even if no tax is due. “

Note that if you are a pensioner and have filed returns for four or more years, when you come to sell your main residence there is no 3% retention and no liability for capital gains, so well worth doing the return IMHO.