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Practical manual for Income Tax 2022.

Requirements and conditions for the application of the exemption

The requirements and conditions for the application of this exemption are as follows:

A. Total or partial reinvestment

The exemption may be total, if the total amount obtained from the transfer of the shares is reinvested, or partial when the reinvested amount is less than the total amount received from the transfer. In the latter case, only the proportional part of the capital gain obtained that corresponds to the reinvested amount will be excluded from taxation.

B. Reinvestment period

The reinvestment of the amount obtained from the sale must be carried out, in one go or successively , in a period not exceeding one year from the date of transfer of the shares or interests.

Note: For the purposes of this one-year period provided for the reinvestment of the amount obtained in new shares, please note that the calculation of the same has been paralyzed since March 14, 2020, the date of entry into force of Real Decree 463/2020, until May 30, 2020, by virtue of the provisions of the ninth Additional Provision of Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, of March 31, by which urgent complementary measures are adopted in the social and economic sphere to confront Covid-19 (BOE of April 1) and the modification of the temporal references provided for in the first Additional Provision of Royal Decree-Law 15/2020, of April 21, on urgent measures complementary measures to support the economy and employment (BOE of April 22).

C. Reinvestment in a year other than that of disposal

When the reinvestment is not carried out in the same year of the sale, the taxpayer will be obliged to state in the IRPF declaration of the year in which the capital gain is obtained his intention to reinvest under the conditions and deadlines indicated.

D. Excluded assumptions

exemption for reinvestment will not apply:

  • When the taxpayer has acquired homogeneous securities in the year before or after the transfer of the shares. In this case, the exemption will not apply to securities that remain in the taxpayer's assets.

  • When the shares are transferred to the spouse, or to relatives in a direct or collateral line, by consanguinity or affinity, up to the second degree included.

  • When the shares or interests are transferred to an entity in respect of which any of the circumstances established in article 42 of the Commercial Code occur with the taxpayer or with any of the persons mentioned in the previous point.

E. Non-compliance with reinvestment conditions

Failure to comply with any of the reinvestment conditions will result in the taxation of the corresponding portion of the capital gain.

In such case, the taxpayer must allocate the non-exempt portion of the capital gain to the year in which it was obtained, by carrying out a supplementary self-assessment including late payment interest.

The supplementary self-assessment must be submitted within the period between the date on which the breach occurs and the end of the regulatory declaration period corresponding to the tax period in which said breach occurs.