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Beckham Tax Law in Spain

The Beckham Tax Law is a tax law which applies to foreigners coming to live in Spain for employment purposes. It limits the amount of personal tax expats have to pay to 24%. It only applies to Spanish personal income. People must be coming to live in Spain to start a new job, become tax […]

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Changes to the Spanish Rental Law

The Spanish rental law was altered again on 6th March 2019. This brings back many of the first changes from December 2018 that were over-ruled in January 2019. The main changes are as follows. Long term rental contracts are now for a period of 5 years if the owner is a person. If the owner […]

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How to Pay Your ITP

ITP stands for Impuesto sobre Transmisiones Patrimoniales – which equates to Transfer Tax. There are various forms of ITP, but this article is concerned with paying the ITP when renting property in Spain. By law when you rent a property in Spain you have to pay the ITP tax. It’s a once only payment when you […]

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