Wealth and inheritance tax

Wealth and inheritance tax planning in Spain: Wealth Tax, Inheritance & Gift Tax, family business exemption and cross-border succession. 5 analyses and 1 FAQ and 3 notes, most recent first.

  1. FAQWealth & inheritance

    Frequently asked questions about Spanish Inheritance and Gift Tax for the foreigner becoming a Spanish tax resident

  2. Note

    Family business: negative income from other economic activities does not enter the denominator of the 50%

  3. TSJSTSJ Cataluña, 29/12/2025Family business

    Negative income from other economic activities is not computed in the 50% management-functions calculation under the family-business exemption

  4. DGTV0145-26Family business

    Family-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 company

  5. Note

    Restructuring into a holding: prior subsidiary remuneration does not count towards the 50% family-business test

  6. DGTV0127-26Family business

    The total division to facilitate generational handover is a valid economic reason for the purposes of the FEAC regime of the Corporate Income Tax

  7. Note

    Total demerger to prepare generational handover: valid economic reason under the FEAC regime

  8. DGTV0022-25 · V1700-25Trusts

    The 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 rules

  9. DGTV0565-21Non-residents

    Transfer in Germany of a KG holding Spanish real estate to a Familienstiftung: outside Spanish transfer tax, with open questions (V0565-21)