3.3.6. Refund

If the final result of the personal income tax return is an amount to be refunded, the taxpayer can request a refund of said amount.

This amount will be, at most, the sum of the withholdings actually made, the payments on account and fractional payments made of the Personal Income Tax as well as the Non-Resident Income Tax quotas paid by taxpayers who have acquired such status by change of residence, plus the corresponding amount, where applicable, to the maternity deduction regulated in article 81 of the Personal Income Tax Law and/or the deduction for large families or dependent persons with disabilities provided for in article 81 bis of the Personal Income Tax Law.

The Administration has six months, from the end of the deadline for submitting declarations, or from the date of submission if the declaration was submitted after the deadline, to carry out the provisional liquidation that confirms, or rectifies, the amount of the refund requested by the declarant.

Tax returns for deceased taxpayers

In the event that the taxpayer who is the holder of the return with a result to be refunded has died, the refund will be withheld until the heir(s) submit, online or in a personal registry, a request for payment of a refund to heirs (they can use Form H-100 for this purpose) which will be accompanied by the following documentation, depending on the amount of the refund:

1. If the refund is less than 2,000 euros:

   1. Death certificate.

   2. Family Record Book.

   3. Certificate of Registration of Last Wills.

   4. Will (only if it appears in the certificate of last wills)

   5. In the event that there are several heirs and you wish the refund amount to be paid to one of them, written and signed authorization, accompanied by a photocopy of the ID of all the heirs.

   6. Bank certificate of account ownership in the name of the persons who are going to collect the refund

2. If the refund is greater than 2,000 euros:

   1. Death certificate.

   2. Family Record Book.

   3. Certificate of Registration of Last Wills.

   4. Will or, failing that, Notarial Deed of Declaration of Heirs.

   5. Proof of having paid the Inheritance and Gift Tax for the amount of the refund.

   6. If applicable, a Power of Attorney authorizing one of the heirs to receive the refund on behalf of all of them. This requirement may be replaced by certification from the Depository Entity of the existence of an account opened in it, the ownership of which corresponds to all the heirs.

The refund is made by bank transfer to the account that, being the property of the taxpayer, he/she has indicated in the aforementioned document.