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Practical manual for Income Tax 2021.

In general: transfer of unlisted securities

Specific valuation standard

When the change in the value of the assets arises from the transfer for consideration of securities not admitted to trading on any of the regulated securities markets defined in Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments, which are representative of participation in the equity of companies or entities, the capital gain or loss will be computed by the difference between the acquisition value and the transfer value.

Please note that Directive 2004/39/EC has been repealed with effect from 3 January 2017 by Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on instrument markets. financial. This, in its article 94, provides that references to Directive 2004/39/EC will be understood as references to Directive 2014/65/EU.

• Transmission value

The transfer value shall be considered, unless there is proof that the amount actually paid corresponds to what independent parties would have agreed upon under normal market conditions, to be the highest of the following two:

  1. The value of the net worth corresponding to the transferred securities resulting from the balance sheet corresponding to the last fiscal year closed prior to the date of accrual of the Tax.

  2. The result of capitalizing at a rate of 20 percent the average of the results of the three fiscal years closed prior to the date of accrual of the Tax. For this purpose, dividends distributed and allocations to reserves, excluding those for adjustment or updating of balance sheets, will be recorded as profits.

    The transfer value thus calculated will be taken into account to determine the acquisition value of the securities or shares that corresponds to the purchaser.

• Acquisition value

The following particularities must be taken into account when determining the acquisition value:

  1. Acquisition value in case of transfer of subscription rights .

    To determine the acquisition value of the shares transferred, only the amount of the subscription rights transferred before March 23, 1989, the date of entry into force of Royal Decree-Law 1/1989, of March 22 ( BOE of March 23) will be deducted.

    The alienation of preferential subscription rights derived from this class of shares determines that the amount obtained is in any case considered a capital gain for the transferor in the tax period in which said transfer occurs, without being able to compute, in these cases, an acquisition value of said rights and for which the period between the moment of acquisition of the value from which the right comes and the moment of the transfer of the latter will be taken as the permanence period.

  2. Acquisition value of partially paid-up shares .

    In the case of partially paid-up shares, the acquisition value of the same will be the amount actually paid by the taxpayer.

  3. Purchase value of fully paid shares .

    In the case of fully paid-up shares, the acquisition value, both of these and of those that are coming, will be the result of dividing the total cost between the number of shares, both the old ones and the corresponding paid-up ones. The latter will have, for the purposes of the permanence period, the same seniority as the shares of origin.

• Identification of the transmitted titles

In order to individualize the securities sold, especially when not all of those owned have been transferred, the Law establishes a special criterion, according to which when there are homogeneous securities and not all of them are sold, it is understood that those transferred by the taxpayer are those that acquired first (FIFO criterion).