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Commentary on judgments, TEAC resolutions and binding rulings of the Directorate-General for Taxes, each with its full reference. Ordered by date of publication.

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DateIssuing bodyReferenceTitleSubject
DGTV5374-26Carried interest and the Spanish impatriate regime: the DGT confirms that carried interest deriving from points allocated before the move is not taxed in Spain (V5374-26)Beckham
DGTV1648-26Exit tax and relocation to Switzerland: the DGT confirms deferral, clarifies the effect of a gift to the spouse and rules out Wealth Tax under limited tax liability (V1648-26)Residence
TSSTS 949/2026FEAC regime and anti-abuse clause: the Spanish Supreme Court requires a reinforced statement of reasons to eliminate deferral, and the TEAC has already set out its readingFamily business
TJUEC-203/25Parent-Subsidiary Directive and chains of transactions: the CJEU judgment in Neo Group allows the withholding tax exemption to be denied even where the parent company carries on a genuine activityNon-residents
ANSAN 167/2026Tax residence by physical presence: the Spanish National High Court sets aside the assessment of a well-known singer because the Administration fails to prove 183 daysResidence
TSSTS 167/2026The Spanish Supreme Court accepts that the rental employee may be provided by the group, if the lessor is integrated into its activityFamily business
DGTV0354-26Interposing a holding company as administrator can cause the rest of the family group to lose the family-business exemptionFamily business
TEACRG 06015/2024TEAC embraces the Supreme Court doctrine: the full-time employee requirement in property rental can be met at group levelFamily business
TEACRG 1535/2024TEAC reiterates that the FIFO method applies to gifts of homogeneous securities: an identification rule, not a valuation ruleWealth & inheritance
TSSTS 350/2026A self-assessment may not be the subject of the special review procedure for acts that are null as of rightProcedure
TSSTS 1122/2024Home entry and access to computer equipment: the court order must give specific reasons for digital access (STS 1122/2024)Procedure
TEACRG 7969/2022The tax regime of Law 49/2002 does not apply automatically to non-resident foundations: the TEAC requires the prior election to exclude taxation under the IRNRTrusts
TJUEC-472/24The CJEU clarifies the VAT treatment of the exchange between a video-game virtual currency and traditional currenciesCrypto-assets
TSSTS 7/2026VELCRO case: with the Directive exemption refused for lack of beneficial ownership, the Spanish Supreme Court denies the treaty rate on the basis of EU-law primacyNon-residents
Art. 93.1.a) LIRPFThe special inbound-expatriates regime requires not having been a Spanish tax resident in the five tax periods preceding the moveBeckham
TSJSTSJ Cataluña, 29/12/2025Negative income from other economic activities is not computed in the 50% management-functions calculation under the family-business exemptionFamily business
TSECLI:ES:TS:2026:1629The Criminal Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court rules on the presumption of validity of tax-residence certificates in criminal proceedingsResidence
TSSTS 401/2026Penalties under article 170.Two.4 of the VAT Act for reverse charge may be annulled as disproportionateProcedure
TEACRG 5861/2025Tax notification at the tax domicile despite the designation of a representative: the TEAC qualifies the Spanish Supreme Court's doctrine under the rule of purpose achievedProcedure
TSSTS 308/2026The intragroup transfer of shares by a mixed holding company falls within a differentiated sector for VAT purposes, unless it entails the transfer of an autonomous economic unitFamily business
DGTV0476-26International remote work from Spain opens the Beckham regime to the foreign executive, but leaves unresolved the risk of permanent establishment of the employerBeckham
DGTV0145-26Family-business exemption: the remuneration received from companies transferred in the framework of a restructuring is excluded from the 50% calculation at the level of the holding companyFamily business
DGTV0127-26The total division to facilitate generational handover is a valid economic reason for the purposes of the FEAC regime of the Corporate Income TaxFamily business
DGTV2560-25Compensation for a non-compete covenant received under the Beckham regime is not taxed in Spain if it derives from activity carried out abroadBeckham
DGTV0022-25 · V1700-25The DGT consolidates the tax transparency of the foreign trust: the inter vivos contribution is not a gift for personal income tax purposes and the mortis causa transfer to the resident beneficiary opens access to regional inheritance tax rulesTrusts
TSSTS 971/2025The Spanish Supreme Court reiterates the doctrine on the foreign tax residence certificate, but the first tie-breaker rule of the treaty places residence in Spain, the only State where a permanent home is recordedResidence
DGTV1208-25 · V1209-25 · V1622-24The DGT maps out the Beckham regime for company directors: causation, the passive-holding test and continuityBeckham
DGTV0986-25International trusts and inbound workers: the regime of article 93 of the Personal Income Tax Act does not neutralise the resident beneficiary's inheritance tax exposure under personal obligationTrusts
DGTV2095-24The DGT confirms that the office of trustee and general director of a Spanish foundation counts as a directorship for the Beckham regime, and that foreign board seats are compatibleBeckham
DGTV1983-24A director holding 100 % indirectly may elect the Beckham regime if the entity is not a passive-holding company (V1983-24)Beckham
TSSTS 1392/2024The Spanish Supreme Court resolves a residence conflict with the United Kingdom involving a remittance-basis taxpayer under the tie-breaker rules (STS 1392/2024)Residence
TSSTS 778/2023The Spanish Supreme Court sets the value of a foreign tax residence certificate issued for treaty purposes (STS 778/2023)Residence
DGTV0565-21Transfer in Germany of a KG holding Spanish real estate to a Familienstiftung: outside Spanish transfer tax, with open questions (V0565-21)Non-residents
DGTV0781-16Spanish real estate contributed to a Liechtenstein Stiftung: Non-resident Income Tax for the founder, no Inheritance and Gift Tax for the foundation (V0781-16)Trusts