Method and modalities of determining the net income of economic activities

Regulations: Art. 16 Personal Income Tax Law

Introduction

The methods for determining the net income from business, commercial or non-commercial activities, and professional activities are as follows:

Direct estimation, which supports two modalities: normal and simplified.
Objective estimate, which is applied as a voluntary method to each of the economic activities, considered in isolation, determined by the Minister of Finance.

Without prejudice to the detailed commentary on each of the methods and modalities of determining net income in the corresponding Chapters of the Manual, the tables in the following sections contain the most significant notes on each of these methods and modalities.

Note: Royal Decree-Law 18/2019, of December 27, which adopts certain measures in tax, cadastral and social security matters (BOE of the 29th) modified the Personal Income Tax Law , extending for the 2020 tax period the exclusionary quantitative limits set in the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for the application of the objective estimation method, with the exception of agricultural, livestock and forestry activities that have their own quantitative limit based on income volume.