{"id":491,"date":"2012-12-13T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.co.uk\/?p=491"},"modified":"2015-09-08T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:45:48","slug":"overpaid-inheritance-tax-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/2012\/12\/13\/overpaid-inheritance-tax-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Overpaid inheritance tax in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/files\/2012\/09\/impsts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-448 size-full\" title=\"Tax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/files\/2012\/09\/impsts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/files\/2012\/09\/impsts.jpg 849w, http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/files\/2012\/09\/impsts-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/files\/2012\/09\/impsts-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/files\/2012\/09\/impsts-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have<strong> inherited a property in Spain<\/strong>, you probably have paid much <strong>more inheritance tax than you should have<\/strong>. In fact, you shouldn&#8217;t have paid almost anything.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Government has fixed an IHT of 35% for non residents, when for most of the cases, Spanish nationals have tax <strong>exemptions around 95%<\/strong>, depending where the property is located.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that <strong>European Court of Justice<\/strong> has declared that Spain has not accomplished its obligations related to the European Economic Space Agreement of May 2nd 1992 when <strong>treating differently residents and non residents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, for all cases included <strong>within the last four years<\/strong>, when at least one of the actors (the inheritor, or the deceased) were non residents at the moment of the decease, you will be able to recover the overpaid inheritance tax.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in this situation and you need our legal advise, please do not hesitate to contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you have inherited a property in Spain, you probably have paid much more inheritance tax than you should have. In fact, you shouldn&#8217;t have paid almost anything. Spanish Government has fixed an IHT of 35% for non residents, when for most of the cases, Spanish nationals have tax exemptions around 95%, depending where&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31,8],"tags":[112,24,18,39,182,190,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iurisonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}