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Practical manual for Income Tax 2023.

For daycare expenses for children under 3 years old

Regulations: Articles 110-17, 160-1 and 160-2.7 Revised Text of the provisions issued by the Autonomous Community of Aragon on transferred taxes, approved by Legislative Decree 1/2005, of September 26

A. Under general regime

Amount of deduction

15 percent of the amounts paid in the tax period for the costs of custody of children under 3 years of age in nurseries or early childhood education centers.

For the purposes of applying this deduction, a nursery or early childhood education centre shall be understood to be any centre authorised by the Department responsible for Education that is intended to provide care for children under 3 years of age.

Maximum deduction limit

  • 250 euros , for each child enrolled in said nurseries or centers, before they turn 3 years old.

  • 125 euros , for each child enrolled in said nurseries or centers, in the tax period in which the child turns 3 years old

 Requirements and other conditions for the application of the deduction

  • Only those descendants who entitle the application of the minimum for descendants will be taken into account.

  • That the sum of the general taxable base and the savings taxable base, boxes [0435] and [0460] of the declaration, is less than :

    • - 35,000 euros in individual taxation.

    • - 50,000 euros in joint taxation.

    In any case, the taxable base for savings, whatever the type of declaration, cannot exceed 4,000 euros .

  • When the children who give the right to the deduction live with more than one taxpayer, the amount of the deduction will be prorated equally .

    The following criteria must be taken into account when applying this requirement:

    1. To determine whether the deduction should be prorated, only the child's cohabitation with more than one parent on the date the tax is due (normally December 31) will be taken into account, except in the case of shared custody, in which it will be considered that there is cohabitation between the parents, even if the child is not actually living with one of them on the aforementioned date.

      In addition, the taxpayer must have paid the costs of daycare or early childhood education centers. However, in the case of amounts paid by married couples in community property and under the legal regime of the Aragonese marital consortium, the amount will be deemed to have been paid by both parents even if it is only paid by one of the spouses.

    2. In any case, the sum of the deductions for childcare expenses for both parents cannot exceed the maximum amounts provided.

    3. It will be understood that cohabitation exists if the child dies during the year, provided that cohabitation exists on the date of death.

    4. If, while the parents were living together, one of them had died before 31 December, the deduction can be applied for the amounts paid up to the date of death that correspond to him/her, with a limit of 50 percent of the maximum amount of the corresponding deduction.

    For his/her part, the surviving spouse will apply the deduction without being able to exceed, taking into account the amount applied in the declaration of the deceased parent, the maximum established amount.

B. In application of the differentiated tax regime (incompatible with the general regime)

Amount of deduction

15 percent of the amounts paid in the tax period for the costs of custody of children under 3 years of age in nurseries or early childhood education centers.

Maximum deduction limit

  • 300 euros , for each child enrolled in said nurseries or centers, before they turn 3 years old.

  • 150 euros , for each child enrolled in said nurseries or centers, in the tax period in which the child turns 3 years old :

Requirements and other conditions for the application of the deduction

Taxpayers must meet the same requirements as in the general regime and, in addition, the following:

  • The differentiated tax regime is applicable to taxpayers residing in rural settlements with a high risk or extreme risk of depopulation (Range VIII, IX and X), provided that they also have a Synthetic Index of Territorial Development (ISDT) less than 100.

    You can consult the list of rural settlements for the purposes of the special differentiated tax regime at the following link:

    Differentiated tax regime. Rural settlements

  • Only taxpayers who have their habitual residence, during the calendar year in which the corresponding tax obligation is accrued and in the following four years, in one of the rural settlements with high risk or extreme risk of depopulation indicated above can benefit from this special regime of differentiated taxation. In the case of a married couple opting for joint taxation, this requirement will be deemed to be met when this circumstance is present for either spouse.