Skip to main content
Practical Income Manual 2020.

For rental of habitual residence

Regulations: Art. 15 Consolidated text of the current legal provisions issued by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands regarding transferred taxes , approved by legislative Decree 1/ 2009, April 21.

Amount and maximum limit of the deduction

20 percent of the amounts paid in the tax period for the rental of the habitual residence, with a maximum of 600 euros per year .

Note: In order to be able to make this deduction, the taxpayer, as a tenant, must pay amounts for the rent of his or her habitual residence during the tax period. Therefore, in the case of marriage, regardless of the matrimonial property regime, only the amounts paid by the spouse who signed the lease contract will be deductible, without prejudice to the fact that such contract has internal effects between the spouses. See in this regard Supreme Court Ruling no. 220/2009, of April 3.

Requirements and other conditions for the application of the deduction

  • That the sum of the general tax base and the savings tax base, boxes [0435] and [0460] of the declaration corresponding to the year in which the right to deduction arises, is not greater than :

    • - 20,000 euros annually in individual taxation.
    • - 30,000 euros annually in joint taxation.
  • That the amounts paid for rent exceed 10 percent of the general tax base obtained in the tax period discounted, if any, the amount of subsidies that would have been received for this concept the tenant.
  • The concept of habitual residence will be the one contained in the Personal Income Tax Law .

  • The application of the deduction is conditional on the taxpayer's declaration of the NIF lessor , of the cadastral identification of the habitual residence and the annual rental fee .

Note: Taxpayers entitled to the deduction must record the cadastral reference of the home and, if it exists, that of the second rented home, or, where appropriate, if it does not have a cadastral reference, an "X" will be marked in the corresponding boxes. . Likewise, they must complete the section "Additional information to the regional rental deduction" of Annex B.6 of the declaration.