Category: Ruling/Decisions and case law
Lawyers’ Professional Secrecy in recent CJEU Jurisprudence
The CJEU has concluded that the reporting obligations established in the DAC are invalid insofar as they affect lawyers’ professional secrecy, as this guarantees the right to privacy and respect for clients’ private lives. However, it clarifies that the exemption from these obligations does not extend to tax advisors who are not lawyers. The Court […]
The Supreme Court definitively resolves which regulation governs the deduction for new fixed assets in the Canary Islands
The Supreme Court has concluded that the regulation governing the deduction for new fixed assets in the Canary Islands is Article 26 of the 1978 Corporate Income Tax Law and not, contrary to what the tax administration and majority jurisprudence have been defending, the 12th Additional Provision of the 1995 Tax Law. The Law 61/1978, […]
Supreme Court: The tax verification of statute-barred fiscal years cannot disregard the principle of full regularization
The Spanish Supreme Court has concluded that when the Tax Administration verifies credits generated in prescribed fiscal years, it must do so in accordance with the principle of complete regularization. This means that if it rejects the deductibility of certain expenses, it must also eliminate the taxation of income linked to them. The Court also […]
Real Estate leasing is an economic activity even when management is outsourced, according to the Directorate General of Taxes
According to the most recent criterion of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT), real estate leasing can be classified as an economic activity for Corporate Income Tax purposes when managed by specialized experts who have been subcontracted, even if there is not a full-time employee exclusively dedicated to its management, as literally required by law. […]
Spain: The General Directorate of Taxes (DGT) clarifies that capital reductions with return of contributions have no impact on the capitalization reserve
Contrary to the criteria previously maintained by some regional economic-administrative courts and the DGT, it is now concluded that, if contributions to equity are not taken into account when computing the increase in equity that gives the right to apply the incentive or to analyze whether the maintenance requirement is met, the same treatment should […]
The Supreme Court opens the door to the deductibility of expenses accrued in prescribed fiscal years
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court has clarified that the legal impossibility of deducting expenses accrued in previous fiscal years, when this would result in lower taxation compared to what would have corresponded in the year of accrual, cannot automatically prevent the deduction of expenses from prescribed fiscal years. One of the issues that […]