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Practical manual for Income Tax 2020.

3.1. General regulation and limits

Regulations: Art. 27 of Law 49/2002, of December 23, on the tax regime of non-profit entities and tax incentives for patronage ( BOE of the 24th).

Delimitation of events of exceptional interest

Article 27.1 of Law 49/2002 defines the support programs for events of exceptional public interest as " the set of specific tax incentives applicable to the actions carried out to ensure the proper development of the events that, where appropriate, are determined by Law."

Percentage and deduction base

For its part, article 27, in its section 3, establishes as a tax benefit for taxpayers of IRPF who carry out economic activities under the direct estimate regime the possibility of deducting from the full tax rate 15% of the expenses that, in compliance with the plans and programs of activities established by the consortium or by the corresponding administrative body, they carry out in the propaganda and publicity of multi-annual projection that directly serve to promote the respective event.

Note: The Resolution of January 25, 2018, of the General Directorate of Taxes, which approves the Manual for the application of tax benefits corresponding to expenses for advertising and publicity of multi-year projection, which serve to promote events of exceptional public interest ( BOE of February 2) contains the applicable rules.

The basis for the deduction may be the total amount of the expenditure incurred , provided that the content of the advertising medium essentially refers to the dissemination of the event. Otherwise , the deduction base will be 25 percent of said expense .

Limits

a) Joint limit on deductions to encourage the performance of certain activities:

This deduction will be computed jointly with the deductions regulated in articles 35, 36 and 38 of the LIS , for the purposes of the limits established in article 39.1 of the LIS . 

These limits for the set of deductions provided for in article 39.1 of the LIS apply in the IRPF on the quota that results from reducing the sum of the full, state and autonomous quotas (boxes [0545] and [0546] of the declaration), in the total amount of the deductions for investment in habitual housing (in the case of taxpayers to whom the transitional regime of this deduction is applicable), for investment in new or recently created companies, provided for in article 68.1 of the Law of IRPF , and for actions for the protection and dissemination of the Spanish Historical Heritage and the World Heritage (boxes [0545] and [0546]; [0549]; [0550] and [0551 ]).

In relation to these limits, article 39.1 of the LIS establishes that the amount of the deductions (excluding the deduction for expenses related to the execution of a foreign production of feature films or audiovisual works referred to in article 36.2 of the LIS which is not subject to these limits), applied in the tax period, may not jointly exceed 25% of the previously defined quota .

However, said limit is raised to 50% when the amount of the deduction provided for in article 35 of the LIS , corresponding to expenses and investments made in the tax period itself, exceeds 10% of the total tax rate , less the deductions for the protection and dissemination of Spanish Historical Heritage and World Heritage and for investments in primary residence and in new or recently created companies.

When there are outstanding balances of deductions from previous years, the applicable limit (25% or 50%) will be applied jointly to the deductions for the 2020 financial year and to the outstanding balances from previous years.

b) Additional limit

As regards the limits of the deduction, in addition to the general one referred to in the previous section, the amount of this deduction is subject to another additional one which consists in that cannot exceed 90% of the donations made to the consortium, publicly owned entities or entities referred to in article 2 of Law 49/2002, of December 23, in charge of carrying out programs and activities related to the event throughout the duration of the program. If these donations are applied, they will not be eligible for any of the tax incentives provided for in Law 49/2002 .