On May 6, 2025, a press conference will be held at the headquarters of the Press Association of Madrid organized by an English law firm. This firm is organizing a collective defense action against the abusive practices of the Spanish Tax Agency. The firm, alarmed by the numerous English citizens who have moved their residence […]
The Spanish Tax Administration has been developing in recent years a campaign of inspections against lawyers who work for companies in which they participate as partners. This trend also extends to companies of professionals in other fields (doctors, engineers,…). Unfortunately, not even in cases in which the real existence of the company, its necessity and
The resolution of the TEAC of September 24, 2024 resorts to the hackneyed (and often used and stretched to the point of prevarication) tool of transfer pricing in the context of related-party transactions to once again provide us with an example of creativity. The inspection had understood that a director of company A, who in
Dani Pedrosa’s victory in December 2023 against the Tax Agency put an end to an ordeal of more than fifteen years. He was not the only one who stood up to it, because in the world of motor racing itself, Jorge Lorenzo had defeated the Tax Office, getting rid of paying more than 10 million
The National Court annuls the liquidation and the penalty imposed by the Tax Agency to Andrés Iniesta for the taxation of image rights. The footballer thus follows in the wake of other celebrities who this year have seen their claims against the tax authorities upheld in the Courts of Justice, José María Aristrain (Arcelor), Dani
Anyone who has been the subject of an inspection procedure knows that the Tax Administration is guilty of a concealment that, starting with the criteria set for the remuneration of inspectors, ends up extending to all phases of the procedure and even to the very entrance to the facilities of the tax agency, whose access
Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach, faces a prison sentence of 4 years and 9 months for alleged tax fraud. The prosecutor’s office, based on the tax inspection report, alleges the creation of a “corporate structure” to which the coach would have transferred his image rights in order not to declare them in Spain. Will he
The European Court of Justice exempts lawyers from informing the Treasury of their clients’ aggressive tax planning operations, considering that it is essential to respect the professional secrecy of lawyers and lawyer-client confidentiality. This was established by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in its ruling of December 8, 2022, in which
The employees of the Tax Agency will receive a salary bonus of 50 million euros in 2020, according to the newspaper ‘ABC’. The agreement, reached with the unions, involves the collection of productivities -instituted since 2014- for performing 12 overtime hours throughout a year and if certain collection objectives are achieved. And this despite the
After being acquitted by the Provincial Court of Madrid of the accusation of three tax crimes, the soccer player Xavi Alonso, one of the few exceptions to the general trend of yielding to the blackmail of the Treasury, has seen how a new front is opened for him. The Economic Crimes Section of the Madrid