Tax agency launched Virtual Assistant

The period to confirm or modify and submit the Personal Income Tax return for 2022 (IRPF 2022) online began on Tuesday, with today, just 48 hours later, being the time when refunds will begin to appear, according to the Tax Agency.

To help with the process, a novelty has been introduced in this latest campaign, in the form of a ‘Virtual Income Assistant’, which will complement the current Income ‘Informer’ for the resolution of the main doubts of taxpayers when preparing their return, and the implementation of a whole series of improvements in ‘Renta Web’ to make navigation more comfortable and agile, they say.

It is expected that in this latest campaign, 22,899,000 declarations will be presented, 3.4% more than the previous year. Of this total, 13,600,000 are expected to give the right to a refund, 60% of the total, for an estimated amount of just short of 10 billion euro. Taxpayers who have declarations to enter (7,649,000 are expected, for an amount of 16,4 billion), as every year, will not make the first payments until the end of the campaign.

The deadline for submission will end on June 30 for returns both to pay and return, although the deadline for returns to pay with direct debit will end on June 27.

Telephone service for the preparation and presentation of returns (“We call you” plan) begins on May 5, with an appointment request from May 3, and face-to-face service in offices begins on June 1, with a request for Appointment from May 25. Personalised attention, by phone and in offices, will continue to have the support of the autonomous communities and town halls.

This year the advance availability of the main assistance services is maintained (obtaining the reference number for the presentation from March 8 and from March 15 both the download and visualisation of tax data, as well as the update of the ‘app’ for the campaign).

Thanks to this anticipation of services, more than 1,300,000 taxpayers have already accessed their tax data, and more than 1,200,000 have obtained the reference number for the management and presentation of their declaration, so that they have had the opportunity to prepare ahead of time to be able, if you wish, to file the return from the first day through ‘Renta Web’, thus also expediting the returns that, if applicable, correspond to you.

Who is not required to declare?

In general terms, taxpayers with income exclusively from work up to an amount of 22,000 euro per year are not required to declare their income. However, this limit is reduced if the income comes from more than one payer (with some exceptions), or also when the payer is not required to withhold and when the income is subject to a fixed rate of withholding. In such cases, the limit is 14,000 euro per year.

As always, it is best to consult a qualified Spanish accountant to ensure your own situation is compatible with the requirements to declare or not.

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