Calculating the taxable base
1. Calculation by profit margin of each operation
The tax base is the profit margin, excluding VAT .
Profit margin:
[Sale price (VAT included) - Purchase price, (VAT included)]
Example:
An antique reseller buys a piece of furniture for 100 euros (VAT included) and sells it for 200 euros (VAT included).
Profit margin = 200 -100 = 100 (VAT included).
Taxable base = 100 ÷ (100 + 21) (1) x 100 = 82.64 euros
Accrued fee = 82.64 x 21% = 17.35 euros
Note:
(1) General tax rate. If books were sold, for example, the figure would be 4, not 21, since book deliveries are taxed at the reduced rate of 4%.
2. Calculation using the overall profit margin.
This is applied to certain goods when the taxpayer has chosen to file the declaration to start an activity, or in the month of December in the year before it is set to take effect, and until the time it is waived, which cannot occur until the end of the next calendar year.
Goods to which it applies:
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Stamps, state-issued paper, notes and coins of philatelic or numismatic interest.
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Records, magnetic tapes and other audio or image supports.
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Books, magazines and other publications.
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Goods authorized by the Tax Management Department of the AEAT upon request of the interested party. The Administration can revoke this authorisation if the circumstances that give rise to it are not present.
The tax base is constituted by the global profit margin for each settlement period minus the VAT amount that corresponds to this margin.
Overall profit margin:
[Sales price (VAT included) of the deliveries of goods in the settlement period - Purchase price (VAT included) of the goods acquired in that same period].
Neither purchases nor sales take into account deliveries exempt from export or similar operations, those relating to free zones, free warehouses and other deposits, nor those relating to customs and tax regimes.
If this margin is negative, the gross tax base will be zero, and the margin will be added to the purchase amount of the following period.
Taxpayers must carry out an annual adjustment of their stock as follows:
Regularization of stocks
(Final balance - initial balance) is:
For the purposes of this adjustment, in cases of starting or ceasing the application of this method of determining the tax base , an inventory of the stock must be made on the date of start or cessation, recording the purchase price of the goods or, failing that, the value of the goods on the date of their acquisition. These inventories must be submitted within 15 days of the start or end of the business. Its presentation can be made at the Delegation or Administration of the AEAT of the tax domicile or electronically through the procedure enabled at the Electronic Headquarters for the presentation of the inventory of stocks for the beginning or cessation of activity subject to special VAT regimes.