Method and modalities of determining the net income of economic activities

Regulations: Art. 16 Law Income Tax

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: with effect from 1 January 2024, Article 15 of Royal Decree-Law 8/2023 of 27 December 2023 adopting measures to address the economic and social consequences of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and to alleviate the effects of the drought amended the thirty-second transitional provision of the Personal Income Tax Law , extending for the 2024 tax period the exclusive quantitative limits set in the years 2016 to 2023 for the application of the objective estimation method, with the exception of agricultural, livestock and forestry activities, which have their own quantitative limit by volume of income .