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Practical manual for Income Tax 2023.

For expenses incurred when moving one's habitual residence to an area of Cantabria with a demographic challenge for reasons of employment or self-employment

Regulations: Art. 2.11.3 Text Consolidated version of the Law on Fiscal Measures in the area of taxes transferred by the State, approved by Legislative Decree 62/2008, of June 19 , by the Autonomous Community of Cantabria

Amount and limits of the deduction

500 euros in the tax period in which the change of residence occurs and in the following one.

Requirements for applying the deduction

  • That the transfer of habitual residence from any point in Spain to an area with a demographic challenge in Cantabria must be motivated by the performance of a work activity either as an employee or as a self-employed person .

    Note: It is understood that those municipalities or town councils in which any of the following objective criteria are met meet this requirement:

    1. Population less than 2,000 inhabitants.

    2. Population density less than 12.5 inhabitants per square kilometer.

    3. Aging rate greater than 30 percent.

    For these purposes, Order HAC /16/2023, of October 16, which approves the list of municipalities that have the status of a rural area of Cantabria with a demographic challenge for the year 2023 must be taken into account ( BOC 10-24-2023). 

    To determine the concept of habitual residence in the territory of an Autonomous Community the provisions of article 72 of the Personal Income Tax Law will be followed.

  • To consolidate the right to the deduction, the taxpayer must remain in the new habitual residence during the year in which the transfer takes place and the following three years.

    Note: Failure to comply with any of the two previous requirements will result in the deducted amounts being included in the regional tax rate for the year in which the failure occurs, with the corresponding late payment interest.

  • That the sum of the general taxable base and the savings taxable base , sum of boxes [0500] and [0510] of the declaration, reduced by the amount of the personal and family minimum , box [0520], is less than

    • - 22,946 euros in individual taxation.

    • - 31,485 euros in joint taxation.

Maximum deduction limit

The amount of the deduction may not exceed the autonomous part of the total quota derived from income from work and economic activities of the year in which the deduction is applicable.

In the event that both spouses generate the right to the deduction, in joint taxation, the maximum limit of the deduction is unique for the declaration as a whole, so its determination will be made taking into consideration the set of income from work and economic activities obtained by both spouses and will be applied to the total amount of the deduction (1,000 euros).

Particularities in case of joint taxation

In the case of joint taxation, the deduction of 500 euros will be applied, in each of the tax periods in which the deduction is applicable, for each of the taxpayers who transfer their residence in the terms discussed above, with the limit of the autonomous part of the full quota from work and economic activities income that corresponds to the taxpayers who generate the right to apply the deduction.