General and regional deductions applicable in 2020

Regulations: Articles 67 and 77 of the Personal Income Tax Law . 

Once the full, state and regional quotas have been determined, the following liquidation phase of IRPF aims to determine the respective net, state and regional quotas. To do this, the following groups of deductions must be applied to the full amount of contributions:

1. Deduction for investment in main home: Transitional scheme

As of January 1, 2013, the deduction for investment in primary residence was eliminated. However, for those taxpayers who, before that date, had acquired their habitual residence or paid amounts for its construction, extension, rehabilitation or carried out works for reasons of disability in it (with the exception of contributions to housing accounts) and were enjoying of this tax benefit, a transitional regime is established that allows them to continue practicing the deduction under the same conditions in which they were doing so.

For such taxpayers, the amount of the deduction for investment in primary residence will be broken down into two sections: one, state and the other, autonomous.

• The state section , the amount of which is calculated in accordance with the provisions of article 68.1 of the Personal Income Tax Law as amended until December 31, 2012, will be applied in its entirety to reduce the state full rate .
• The autonomous section whose amount is determined by the provisions of article 78 of the Personal Income Tax Law in the version in force until December 31, 2012, will be applied in its entirety to reduce the autonomous integral quota.

This amount will be either the one approved by each of the Autonomous Communities in accordance with article 46 of Law 22/2009, of December 18 or, failing that, the percentages established in article 78.2 of the Personal Income Tax Law in the wording in force as of December 31, 2012.

2. Deduction for investment in companies of new or recent creation

Taxpayers can fully deduct from the state tax the amount corresponding to the deduction for investment in new or recently created companies regulated by article 68.1 of the Income Law, when they meet the requirements and conditions required to enjoy this new incentive.

3. General deductions from state regulations

The deductions listed below, whose regulation is contained in the IRPF Law itself (article 68. 2, 3, 4 and 5) and, in relation to the transitional regime of the deduction for renting a habitual residence, in the fifteenth transitional provision that refers, in turn, regarding its regulation for taxpayers who are entitled to this transitional regime to the regulations of the Personal Income Tax Law in force on December 31, 2014, can be applied, in general, by all taxpayers who meet the legally required requirements to be entitled to the same, regardless of the Autonomous Community of common regime in which they have resided during 2020, with the exception of the specialties that derive from the deduction for income obtained in Ceuta or Melilla.

• Deductions for incentives and stimuli to business investment
• Deductions for donations and other contributions
• Deduction for income obtained in Ceuta or Melilla
• Deduction for actions for the protection and dissemination of Spanish Historical Heritage and World Heritage
• Deduction for rental of the residence. Transitional scheme

The amount of these deductions is distributed as follows:

• 50% of the total amount is applied to reduce the total state quota.
• 50% of the total amount is applied to reduce the full regional quota.

4. Autonomous community deductions

The Autonomous Communities of the common regime, making use of the regulatory powers assumed in relation to the transferred part of the Personal Income Tax , have approved regional deductions that can only be applied by taxpayers who, meeting the requirements established for have the right to them, have resided during the 2020 financial year in their respective territories.

The amount of these deductions is fully applied to reduce the total regional quota.

5. Deduction applicable to family units formed by tax residents in Member States of the European Union or the European Economic Area

With effect from January 1, 2018, a new deduction was introduced on the quota in favor of those Personal Income Tax taxpayers who are members of a family unit in which one of its members resides in another Member State of the European Union or the European Economic Area, which prevents them from submitting a joint declaration. This deduction, when more favourable, equates the amount payable by these taxpayers resident in Spain to what they would have been entitled to if all members of the family unit had been tax residents in Spain and had chosen to pay taxes jointly.

The amount of this deduction is not divided 50/50 between the full state and regional quota, but rather reduces each of them in the manner established by the Forty-eighth Additional Provision of the Personal Income Tax Law and which is discussed in the section referring to said deduction.