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Practical manual for Income Tax 2019.

Special assumptions

  • Deferred capital insurance intended for generating income

    Regulations: Art. 25.3 a) 6 Law Income Tax

    Life or disability insurance policies that provide benefits in the form of capital and said capital is used to establish life or temporary annuities will not be taxed at the time the contingency covered by the insurance occurs, but rather will be taxed at the time the life or temporary annuities are established in accordance with the regime for these discussed below. To do this, the possibility of conversion must be included in the insurance contract and the capital must not be made available to the taxpayer by any means.

  • Disability insurance whose beneficiary is the mortgage creditor

    Regulations: Additional Provision fortieth Law IRPF

    Income derived from the benefit for the contingency of disability covered by insurance will have the same tax treatment that would have corresponded if the beneficiary were the taxpayer himself, that is, they will be considered income from movable capital, when the following requirements are met:

    • That it be received by the taxpayer's mortgage creditor as its beneficiary.
    • That the taxpayer's mortgage creditor has the obligation to fully or partially amortize the taxpayer's mortgage debt.
    • That the mortgage creditor is a credit institution, or another entity that, in a professional manner, carries out the activity of granting mortgage loans or credits.

    However, these incomes will in no case be subject to withholding.

    Important: the condition for the benefits derived from life or disability insurance to be taxed in the Personal Income Tax is that the policyholder who contracts and pays the insurance premium (or the insured if the insurance is collective) and the beneficiary of the benefit coincide, except in the special case of insurance in which the beneficiary is the mortgage creditor; Otherwise, the income will normally be subject to Inheritance and Gift Tax.