Beckham Law in Spain: Tax Rate, Eligibility and Requirements for 2026

How the Beckham Law Applies to Foreign Income, Company Ownership and Cross-Border Relocations

Lawants Guide · Beckham Law Spain 2026

The Beckham Law in Spain offers qualifying individuals who relocate for work or another recognised professional reason a special tax regime for up to six years, including a 24% rate on employment income up to €600,000. The benefit can be substantial, but a visa, employment contract or salary does not establish eligibility on its own.

Eligibility and tax efficiency depend on why the move occurs, the relationship with the employer, the nature of income, Spanish assets, family members and continuing corporate interests. For founders, shareholder-executives and international groups, ownership, equity compensation, Social Security and the employer’s Spanish corporate exposure must be assessed alongside the personal election.

This guide explains the eligibility routes, filing deadlines, annual obligations, treatment of foreign income and Spanish assets, and what happens after six years. Lawants assesses complex cross-border profiles, identifying the appropriate route and coordinating the individual and corporate positions before filing and throughout the regime.

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Spain’s special tax regime for inbound workers is widely known as the Beckham Law or Ley Beckham.

It can be highly valuable, but it is not a blanket exemption for expatriates and it does not turn every Digital Nomad Visa, foreign payroll or Spanish employment contract into an eligible case. This guide explains the rules in force in 2026, from eligibility and tax rates to foreign income, wealth, filing and the issues that arise when an individual owns, directs or continues to manage a company abroad.

What Is the Beckham Law in Spain?

The Beckham Law is the common name for the special tax regime for workers, professionals, entrepreneurs and investors displaced to Spanish territory, governed principally by Article 93 of the Spanish Personal Income Tax Law.

It is not a separate tax or a visa. It is an optional method of calculating Spanish personal income tax for individuals who become Spanish tax residents because they move to Spain and satisfy one of the qualifying routes.

An individual covered by Article 93 remains an IRPF taxpayer and a Spanish tax resident. However, their liability is calculated largely by reference to the Non-Resident Income Tax rules, subject to the specific modifications in Article 93. That distinction matters. Saying that a beneficiary simply becomes a “non-resident” or pays tax only on “Spanish salary” is an incomplete description of the regime.

The nickname comes from David Beckham, who benefited from the former version of the rules after moving to Real Madrid. Professional athletes have since been excluded. The current regime is aimed more broadly at inbound employees, remote workers, company directors, qualifying entrepreneurs and certain highly qualified professionals.

The essential figures can be summarised quickly, although each rests on legal conditions that must be tested against the applicant’s facts.

When the Beckham regime requires more than a filing

A straightforward employee joining an unrelated Spanish employer may need little more than confirmation of the general requirements and a correctly timed filing. The analysis is different where the move interacts with a pre-existing business or compensation structure. It becomes particularly important where:

• a founder or shareholder will remain employed by an LLC, C-Corp, Ltd, S.r.l., S.p.A. or GmbH after moving to Spain;
• a multinational group is transferring an executive who holds shares, options or decision-making authority;
• the individual receives salary, bonuses, dividends, carried interest, stock options or RSUs in more than one jurisdiction;
• the move may affect the foreign company’s permanent establishment or corporate tax residence;
• the applicant already benefits from the regime and plans to change role, add an activity or bring family members within it.

In those cases, the value of the Beckham regime cannot be separated from the legal and corporate structure that will continue operating once the individual is in Spain.

Complex cross-border cases

Does your move affect a company, ownership structure or compensation across more than one country?

Lawants advises founders retaining a foreign company, shareholder-executives transferred within an international group, executives receiving stock options, RSUs or income in several jurisdictions, and existing Beckham Law beneficiaries whose role or activity is changing. We assess the qualifying route together with the individual’s ownership, compensation and the employer’s Spanish exposure.

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Beckham Law in 2026: What Has Changed and What Still Applies

There is no separate “Beckham Law 2026” replacing the regime. The rules applicable in 2026 are the current version of Article 93 LIRPF and its implementing regulations, incorporating the expansion introduced by Spain’s Startup Law and subsequent tax changes.

The 2023 expansion

From 2023, the lookback period during which the applicant must not have been Spanish tax resident was reduced from ten to five tax periods. Eligibility was broadened to include qualifying international remote workers, entrepreneurs carrying out an innovative activity of special economic interest for Spain, certain highly qualified professionals and eligible family members.

The reform also changed the director route. The familiar statement that a director owning more than 25% is automatically excluded is no longer a correct general rule. The related-party threshold becomes relevant where the company is a patrimonial entity under Article 5.2 of the Corporate Income Tax Law.

Directors and shareholder-employees must nevertheless be analysed under different tests, a distinction developed in our guides to the Beckham Law for foreign founders and Beckham Law ownership thresholds for shareholder-employees.

Developments relevant in 2025 and 2026

For tax periods beginning in 2025, the top rate on Spanish-source savings income increased to 30% for the relevant top band. In addition, the Spanish Central Economic-Administrative Tribunal confirmed in July 2025 that taxpayers under Article 93 must include imputed real-estate income for qualifying urban property in Spain, including a Spanish home used as their principal residence. Current summaries that describe the main home as automatically outside the regime’s income-tax base are therefore outdated.

The core mechanics remain: a 24% rate on the first €600,000 of the relevant general base, 47% above that amount, a maximum duration of six tax years and a specific filing route through Modelo 149 followed by annual Modelo 151 returns.

For that reason, a 2026 eligibility analysis should use the law in force and the applicant’s actual arrangements, rather than a pre-2023 checklist or the approval of a separate immigration application.

Beckham Law Tax Rate 2026: How Income Is Taxed

The 24% rate is the most visible feature of the Spain Beckham Law, but it applies to a defined tax base.

It is not a universal rate on every item of income and it does not mean that every payment received outside Spain is exempt.

Employment and qualifying entrepreneurial income

All employment income obtained while the regime applies is treated as Spanish-source income for Article 93 purposes, regardless of where the employer is established or where the salary is paid. The same special rule applies to income from the qualifying entrepreneurial activity contemplated by the regime.

• Up to €600,000: 24%.
• Above €600,000: 47% on the excess.

Worldwide work income can therefore enter the Spanish base. An executive cannot assume that a foreign bonus, RSU vesting event or stock-option benefit is foreign passive income merely because the plan and payer are outside Spain. The legal character of the compensation, its accrual and source must be analysed.

Spanish-source savings income

Spanish-source dividends, interest and capital gains included in the savings base are taxed at the special savings rates. For 2026, the bands are:

• 19% up to €6,000;
• 21% from €6,000 to €50,000;
• 23% from €50,000 to €200,000;
• 27% from €200,000 to €300,000;
• 30% above €300,000.

Foreign income, Spanish assets and reporting

Foreign-source dividends, interest, rental income and capital gains are generally outside the Spanish income-tax base under the regime. The word foreign-source, however, does the legal work. A payment from an overseas account is not necessarily foreign-source, and profits connected with work performed or a business managed from Spain may require a different characterisation.

A taxpayer actually covered by Article 93 is generally not required to file Modelo 720 for overseas assets. This conclusion should not be extended automatically to a spouse or family member who has not made and obtained their own election under the regime.

Foreign tax credits are limited

The implementing regulations provide a specific foreign tax credit for foreign employment income and qualifying entrepreneurial income, subject to statutory limits, including a cap linked to 30% of the Spanish tax attributable to that income.

Treaty access and relief should never be assumed from the label “Beckham taxpayer”; the payer, income category and other jurisdiction must be reviewed.

Beckham Law Eligibility: Which Route Applies to You?

Article 93 contains several routes into the regime.

They are alternatives, not interchangeable labels that can be selected after the move. The qualifying event must be connected with the relocation to Spain, and each route has its own factual and documentary requirements.

The route should be identified from what the person will actually do, for whom, and why the relocation occurs.

A founder cannot rely on an employment agreement merely because payroll is administratively possible. Equally, a shareholder is not automatically excluded simply because they own shares. The decisive rules differ according to whether the person is an employee, director, entrepreneur or highly qualified professional.

Employee and international remote-work route

The employment route covers ordinary and special employment relationships, excluding professional athletes. It also recognises employer-ordered moves documented by an assignment letter and international remote work performed exclusively through computer, telecommunications and similar systems. Holding a visa for international teleworking can evidence the remote-work scenario, but it does not replace the remaining tax and employment tests.

Where the employee owns or controls the employer, Spanish employment and Social Security law may prevent the relationship from being treated as genuinely subordinate. This is not resolved by the existence of a signed contract, payroll provider or salary payment.

Director route

A person may qualify where the move results from acquiring the status of director of an entity. If the entity is patrimonial under Article 5.2 LIS, the director must not hold a participation that makes them a related party under Article 18 LIS. For an operating company that is not patrimonial, the rule is different; ownership above 25% is not an automatic statutory exclusion under this limb.

The percentage alone does not prove the causal link or the reality of the director role. The appointment, the move, the company’s activity and the functions exercised from Spain must form a coherent factual sequence.

Entrepreneur and highly qualified professional routes

The entrepreneurial route requires a qualifying innovative activity of special economic interest for Spain and the corresponding favourable report under Law 14/2013. The highly qualified professional route covers services to an empresa emergente certified under the Startup Law, as well as qualifying training, research, development and innovation activity subject to its own income condition.

Startup certification and the Beckham Law therefore interact, but they are not the same mechanism. Certification belongs to the company and unlocks specific corporate benefits; the individual still needs a qualifying Article 93 route.

Beckham Law Requirements That Apply to Every Applicant

Once the correct route has been identified, several general conditions must still be satisfied. They should be tested against dates and documents, not treated as a generic checklist detached from the relocation.

1. No Spanish tax residence in the five previous tax periods. Nationality is irrelevant. A previous period of residence in Spain can disqualify an otherwise strong case.
2. The move must occur in the first year in which the regime applies or in the preceding year. The applicant must become Spanish tax resident as a consequence of the qualifying event.
3. A valid Article 93 route must cause or support the relocation. Moving first for personal reasons and constructing a role later can break the required connection.
4. No income through a Spanish permanent establishment. The general restriction is subject to the statutory exceptions for the qualifying entrepreneurial and highly qualified professional activities.
5. The election must be made within the applicable six-month period. The starting point depends on Spanish Social Security registration, proof of maintained foreign coverage or the documented start of activity where Spanish registration is not required.
6. The conditions must remain satisfied. A later change in activity, employer, ownership or company substance can require renewed analysis and, in some cases, notification to the Agencia Tributaria.

The deadline is often described as six months from arrival. That is not the statutory formulation and can produce the wrong date. Article 116 of the IRPF Regulations ties the period to the relevant commencement and Social Security evidence.

Is the Beckham Law Worth It? How to Calculate the Real Tax Benefit

A Beckham Law calculator that compares 24% with the top regional IRPF rate answers only part of the question. The regime removes many ordinary allowances and deductions, applies 47% above €600,000 and can tax items differently from the assumptions used in a salary-only calculation.

A meaningful comparison should model at least:

• salary, bonus and equity compensation over the whole six-year period;
• the autonomous community in which ordinary IRPF would otherwise apply;
• personal and family allowances, pension contributions and deductions lost under the special regime;
• Spanish and foreign dividends, interest, rental income and expected capital gains;
• the location and value of assets for Wealth Tax and the Solidarity Tax on Large Fortunes;
• tax imposed abroad and the availability and limits of credits or treaty relief;
• the timing of a liquidity event, vesting schedule or change of residence;
• the tax position from the seventh year onward.

There is no universal salary at which the Beckham Law becomes beneficial.

A person earning below €100,000 with limited foreign assets may obtain little or no saving compared with ordinary IRPF, while a founder with the same salary and a material foreign investment or equity position may have a completely different result. Conversely, a high salary does not make the regime advisable if the qualifying route is weak or the company exposure created by the move outweighs the personal benefit.

Beyond the tax calculator

A calculator can compare tax rates. It cannot determine which income Spain will tax or what the move changes for your company.

Lawants evaluates the regime in the context of international salary and bonuses, stock options or RSUs, foreign investments, family assets, expected liquidity events and the employer’s Spanish exposure. For founders and cross-border executives, the question is whether the regime produces a coherent overall position during the six years and after it ends.

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Foreign Companies, Founders and Cross-Border Executives

The most consequential Beckham Law cases rarely involve tax alone. A founder who moves to Spain while retaining an overseas company changes where management is exercised, where services are performed and potentially where corporate profits are attributable. A group relocating an executive must align the personal tax election with employment, payroll, Social Security and the functions performed for each group entity.

The first distinction is whether the company paying the individual is Spanish or foreign. The legal questions overlap, but the analysis is not identical.

If a Spanish company pays the salary

A founder may join a Spanish S.L. as an employee, director or under another qualifying professional route. The title chosen in the documents does not decide the tax result. The analysis must establish the actual duties, who exercises control, whether a genuinely subordinate employment relationship exists and whether the company is operating or patrimonial.

For a shareholder-employee, Spanish employment and Social Security rules contain several effective-control presumptions. Personal ownership of at least 50%, ownership of at least one third, ownership of at least 25% combined with management functions and certain family holdings can all affect classification, but they do not operate in the same way. A percentage below the statutory presumptions is not an automatic safe harbour because control can still be proved through voting rights, governance and actual conduct.

Our separate guide explains when a shareholder can qualify as an employee of a company they own.

If a foreign company pays the salary

A foreign employment contract does not avoid Spanish classification. Spain must determine what the foreign entity is, whether the relationship is employment or self-employment in substance, which Social Security system applies and whether the overseas business is being carried on from Spain.

This is especially important for an owner-managed LLC, C-Corp, Ltd, S.r.l. or GmbH. The founder may be formally salaried while retaining the authority to set their own duties, remuneration and company policy. In that case, payroll is evidence of payment, not conclusive evidence of subordination.

Permanent establishment and corporate tax residence

Managing a foreign company from Spain can create a Spanish permanent establishment where the business is conducted through a fixed place or the individual habitually exercises the relevant authority in Spain. A separate and potentially broader issue is corporate tax residence: if effective management and control of the company move to Spain, Spain may treat the entity itself as resident and seek to tax its worldwide profits.

These outcomes depend on the business model, treaty, decision-making process, premises, personnel and contracting powers. They do not arise automatically because a founder lives in Spain, but personal Beckham approval does not protect the company from them.

The same principle applies within multinational groups. Assignment letters, cost recharges, split payrolls and intercompany arrangements must correspond to the executive’s actual functions and to the entity that directs and benefits from the work.

Foreign dividends, transparent entities and founder exits

A founder may expect dividends or a future sale of the overseas company to fall outside Spanish income tax during the regime. That may be correct where the income is genuinely foreign-source, but the conclusion depends on how Spain classifies the entity and the payment. Pass-through vehicles, fiscally transparent companies, partnership interests and employment-linked equity require particular care.

The foreign jurisdiction may continue taxing dividends or gains, and Spanish treaty access or foreign tax credits cannot be assumed. A contemplated sale should also be considered against the six-year limit and the ordinary Spanish regime that follows it. The objective is not to relabel income, but to understand how each country will characterise the same facts.

Founder and employer

Your Beckham Law position should not create an unresolved Spanish position for the company paying you.

Lawants advises the individual and the business within the same cross-border analysis: the qualifying route, ownership and governance, employment and Social Security, income flows, and the employer’s exposure in Spain.

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Can Family Members Join the Beckham Law Regime?

The regime can extend to the principal applicant’s spouse and children under 25, or children of any age where they have a disability. If the couple is not married, the other parent of those children may qualify instead of a spouse. The extension is useful for internationally mobile families, but it is neither automatic nor a derivative status without independent conditions.

Each family member must move to Spain with the principal taxpayer or within the permitted period, acquire Spanish tax residence as a result, satisfy the five-period non-residence condition and avoid the relevant permanent-establishment restriction, subject to the statutory exceptions. Each makes a separate election and receives their own tax treatment under the regime.

There is also an income limitation: the sum of the relevant taxable bases of the accompanying family members must remain below the corresponding base of the principal taxpayer in each year. A spouse’s consulting activity, foreign company, equity compensation or separate relocation trigger therefore needs individual review.

Marriage alone does not make an otherwise ineligible professional activity compatible with Article 93.

How to Apply for the Beckham Law in Spain

The commonly used word “application” is convenient, but the legal mechanism is an election communicated to the Agencia Tributaria. The procedural step is made using Modelo 149. The quality of the filing depends on whether the facts and supporting documents already establish a qualifying route.

1. Establish the route and the effective start date

Before filing, the applicant should identify the relevant limb of Article 93, reconstruct the relocation chronology and determine the date from which the six-month period runs. Depending on the case, that date is linked to Spanish Social Security registration, the document evidencing continued coverage in the home system or the documented start of activity where no Social Security registration is required.

2. Assemble route-specific evidence

The evidence varies. It may include an employment contract, assignment letter, director appointment, Social Security documentation, employer certification, the favourable entrepreneurial report or evidence relating to the certified startup and highly qualified activity. In a founder case, corporate records, ownership, governance and the practical reporting line may be as important as the contract.

3. File Modelo 149 within six months

Modelo 149 is filed electronically with the Agencia Tributaria. Article 119.4 of the IRPF Regulations provides that, where appropriate, the Agency issues the document confirming the election within a maximum of ten business days from the communication. An information request, inconsistent registration or incomplete evidence can interrupt a straightforward process in practice.

Filing before the facts have been reconciled is not a substitute for analysis. If the applicant has already moved without a qualifying event, missed the correct deadline or begun operating through a disqualifying permanent establishment, a polished form cannot repair the underlying condition retroactively.

After Approval: Modelo 151 and Ongoing Compliance

Approval does not freeze the facts for six years. A beneficiary files Modelo 151 annually instead of the ordinary Modelo 100 and should keep payroll withholding, compensation reporting and the source analysis of investment income aligned with the regime.

Events that merit review include:

• changing employer, moving between group companies or becoming a director;
• acquiring shares, voting rights or additional management powers;
• starting consultancy, freelance or entrepreneurial activity;
• receiving a large bonus, exercising options, vesting RSUs or selling shares;
• moving business functions, staff or contracting authority to Spain;
• bringing a spouse or child into the regime;
• the employer becoming patrimonial or changing its operating activity.

Self-employment is not generally compatible merely because the taxpayer already has Beckham status. Under Article 113.2 of the IRPF Regulations, the economic activities permitted within the regime are the qualifying entrepreneurial activity, services as a highly qualified professional and the specified training, research, development and innovation activities. A new autonomous activity must therefore be classified before it begins.

A voluntary renunciation must be communicated in November or December before the calendar year in which it will take effect, and the taxpayer cannot later opt back into the regime.

Where a condition is breached, exclusion applies under the regulatory rules and the taxpayer must notify the Agency within the prescribed period, generally one month from the breach. These are reasons to review changes before implementation rather than after the annual return.

How Long Does the Beckham Law Last and What Happens After Six Years?

The Beckham regime applies for the first tax year in which the individual is treated as resident under the special rules and the following five tax years: a maximum of six tax years. It cannot be renewed simply by changing job or filing a new Modelo 149.

From the seventh year, a person who remains Spanish tax resident enters ordinary IRPF. That generally means progressive taxation on worldwide income, the ordinary rules for foreign tax credits and treaty relief, Wealth Tax and the Solidarity Tax on Large Fortunes on the applicable worldwide basis, and the potential activation of foreign-asset reporting such as Modelo 720.

Exit planning should begin before the final year

For an employee with only salary, the transition may be largely computational. For a founder or executive with a foreign company, family holding, deferred compensation or a planned liquidity event, it can change the taxation of dividends, gains, controlled entities and wealth.

By year four or five there is usually still time to model lawful alternatives, document asset values, review governance and prepare reporting. Waiting until year six can leave important decisions constrained by transactions and rights already fixed.

Exit planning is not necessarily planning to leave Spain. It is planning for the tax system that will apply if the individual stays, and coordinating that transition with the jurisdictions in which the person, family and companies continue to have connections.

Common Beckham Law Mistakes in Cross-Border Cases

In our experience, the recurring problems in founder and executive cases rarely begin with an error on Modelo 149. They arise when a valid answer to one question (a visa approval, a payroll arrangement or a familiar ownership rule) is assumed to resolve a different legal issue.

Treating a visa or payroll setup as proof of tax eligibility

A Digital Nomad Visa answers an immigration question. Payroll shows that remuneration is processed. Neither proves by itself that the applicant has a genuine employment relationship, falls within the correct Social Security category or meets every condition of Article 93.

The conclusion is firmer for the standard Employer of Record model: it is not compatible with Spanish labour law. Where the EOR employs the worker on paper while the client company directs their daily work, the arrangement separates the formal employer from the company exercising the actual employer powers. This constitutes illegal labour leasing (cesión ilegal de trabajadores) under Article 43 of the Workers’ Statute. Calling the arrangement outsourcing or consultancy does not change its legal substance.

Rebranding the arrangement as outsourcing does not change its substance if the client continues to exercise employer powers.

Assuming all foreign income is exempt

All employment income during the regime is deemed Spanish-source, including foreign-paid compensation. Foreign passive income is generally outside the base only where it is genuinely foreign-source. The distinction is critical for owner-managed businesses, pass-through entities, management fees, stock options and profits connected with activity performed from Spain.

Using one ownership threshold for every route

The 25% related-party rule for directors of patrimonial entities is not the same as the effective-control analysis for shareholder-employees. Nor does a low participation create a universal safe harbour. Voting agreements, family ownership, management powers and actual control can be more important than the percentage appearing on a cap table.

Believing CFC status automatically blocks the Beckham Law

A controlled foreign company or a structure that another jurisdiction subjects to CFC rules is not, by that label alone, an express Article 93 exclusion. But this does not make the structure irrelevant. Spain must still classify the entity and the income, and the country of origin may continue applying its own CFC, anti-deferral or reporting rules.

For a founder retaining an overseas company, the correct conclusion must reconcile all of those layers rather than stopping at the treatment of foreign dividends.

Confusing the Beckham Law with the Startup Law

The Startup Law broadened Article 93 and created or enhanced incentives for certified emerging companies, but company certification does not automatically place a founder in the Beckham regime. The company and the individual are tested under different provisions. Depending on the facts, the two frameworks can operate together, separately or not at all.

Treating six months as a period from arrival

The filing period runs from the relevant Social Security or activity commencement evidence, not from a single universal “arrival date.” It is also possible to move too early for personal reasons and later discover that the employment or appointment no longer explains the relocation. Timing affects both the formal deadline and the substantive causal link.

Starting with Modelo 149 instead of the underlying position

Modelo 149 records the election; it does not decide how a foreign entity should be classified, whether the worker is subordinate, who controls the company or where its effective management sits. Those questions should be answered before the filing, because they may also determine which alternative route is available.

How Lawants Supports Beckham Law Clients Beyond the Application

A founder or international executive may arrive with the visa approved, payroll arranged and confirmation that Modelo 149 can be filed. What is often missing is a single adviser able to determine whether those separate pieces form a legally and fiscally coherent position in Spain.

Lawants becomes that point of reference. Our lawyers, tax advisers and accountants coordinate the qualifying route, employment and ownership structure, personal income and assets, and the Spanish obligations of the company behind the move. The same team then follows the application, annual compliance, relevant changes during the regime and the transition after the sixth year.

For the client, this means not having to reconcile different answers from immigration advisers, payroll providers, tax consultants and corporate lawyers. Each decision is assessed against the same facts, allowing the founder, executive and company to establish and maintain a solid position in Spain.

The same continuity applies when the client is the employer. Lawants assists foreign companies and international groups throughout the relocation of their executives, coordinating the individual position with the employment, tax and corporate obligations arising in Spain.

Long-term counsel in Spain

A defensible Beckham Law position begins with the move, but it must remain coherent as the person and the business evolve.

Lawants brings the personal and corporate questions into one relationship: from determining the appropriate route and managing the election to annual compliance, changes in ownership or activity, and preparation for the end of the regime. Our involvement is designed to continue beyond the initial filing.

First enquiries within our scope are reviewed by the Managing Director

Roberto Bosco personally reviews first enquiries that fall within Lawants’ scope and responds within 24 business hours. No call centre and no commercial filter: an initial conversation with someone able to understand the legal and tax implications of the move.

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Beckham Law FAQ for Founders and International Executives

These questions reflect the points that most often change the answer in cross-border cases. Each short answer identifies the controlling issue; the outcome still depends on the facts and documentation.

Primary Legal and Tax Sources

This guide is based on the law and official administrative material in force at the time of review. The principal sources are Article 93 LIRPF; Articles 113–120 of the IRPF Regulations; the Agencia Tributaria’s official pages for the special regime, Modelo 149 and Modelo 151; and the AEAT practical manual on the regime’s tax treatment.

Tax law, administrative criteria and an individual’s circumstances can change. The applicable position should therefore be confirmed against the law and facts existing at the time of the relocation, transaction or filing.

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