Hacienda expects 20 million income tax returns and return 9,468 million, 5.3% less

Hacienda expects 20 million income tax returns and return 9,468 million, 5.3% less 

Estimates that in the campaign that begins today there are 13.7 million declarations in favor of the taxpayer, 2% less, and an increase of 8% of the sign to pay up to 5.2 million

  The Tax Agency foresees that 19,94 million declarations will be presented in the Renta campaign referred to 2017 that begins today and will continue until next July 2. This figure represents an increase of 1.1% over the previous year due to the "strength of wages and improved employment," as explained by the director of the Department of Tax Management, Rufino de la Rosa. However, the agency estimates that in 2018 will be reduced by 2% to 13.77 million the number of taxpayers who will return the result. In fact, the amount to be reimbursed is reduced by 5.3% to 9,468 million. On the other hand, positive statements for the Treasury will increase by 8% to 5.2 million and the result to be paid will increase by 4.9% to 9,621 million.

  De la Rosa has justified these lower returns to taxpayers for a behavior "more attenuated in retentions than in the liquid quota." That is, a lower weight of deductions for growing less than the number of respondents. As for the increase in positive declarations, it is due to the increase in capital gains and economic activities that are not subject to withholding or with a fractional payment and that therefore must be adjusted when presenting the return. Precisely, this decline together with the increase in the declarations to be entered into the Tax Agency means that the net result is favorable to the Treasury in 153 million euros.

For now, until 1.430 hours, 1.4 million reference numbers had been requested (through box 450 of the previous declaration), which is more than double last year. Likewise, 276,000 declarations had been filed, 4% more than the previous year. As for one of the novelties of this year, the mobile application, have already produced 690,000 downloads and up to 465,000 contributors have submitted the statement in a single click through this tool.


The organization led by Santiago Menéndez estimates that up to 4.8 million users may benefit from this new instrument, which are those that confirm the draft declaration without any change. And that application is only valid if you do not have to modify fiscal data. Otherwise, it will be necessary to make the changes in the Web Renta tool available on the Tax Agency's page. Once made, it can be presented through the application. Given the doubts expressed by groups such as the Trade Union of Tax Technicians (Gestha) on the application, De la Rosa has insisted on the need for taxpayers to "review" all fiscal data before confirming the declaration.

Tourist rentals

Likewise, the Tax Agency will make around 136,000 notices to taxpayers that it has detected with rental flats offered on the Internet. In this release you will remember the obligation to declare the income obtained from these leases. In addition, the loyalty bonuses offered by Santander to the shareholders of the Popular must declare it, although it will have a neutral effect as long as there has not been a capital gain when selling it.

Among other regulatory novelties are that training expenses are not considered as income in kind for the worker when they are related to their work activities even if they are not taught by the employer. Likewise, the minimum per descendant can be applied to those who have custody and custody assigned by judicial decision, even if they do not have a family relationship.