When a taxpayer, whether a natural or legal person, completes their RUT (Tax Identification Number), they are assigned a series of responsibilities or tax obligations, which vary according to the type of taxpayer and the type of activities carried out by each one. Do you know what these responsibilities are and what their importance is? In this article, we will tell you what tax responsibilities are in Spain.
Definition of tax obligations
They are the different substantial tax responsibilities that include the payment of taxes and formal ones focused on declarations, presentation of information, registration, and updating in the single tax registry, among others that originate from the economic activity of a natural or legal person.
What happens if tax obligations are not paid?
Failure to comply with tax obligations by a taxpayer is a behavior of lack of solidarity and commitment with the rest of society, which leads to showing that it is not only the omission of the tax obligation that is affected but also the absence of social responsibility causing sanctions or fines since non-compliance generates a tax crime.
What are the tax obligations?
Tax responsibilities are identified with a code, which appears in each person’s RUT, allowing easy access to consult the current status and you can know the tax responsibilities that correspond to you in turn is something very necessary when the corresponding payment of the obligations that we will see below is made:
- Special contribution to the administration of justice
- Tax on financial transactions
- Wealth tax
- Income tax and complementary special regime
- Income tax and complementary ordinary regime
- Income and assets
- Income withholding at source
- National stamp withholding tax
- Sales tax withholding at the source
- Customs user
- Common regime sales
- Simplified regime sales
- Large taxpayer
- Exogenous tax informant
- Withholding agent
- Obligation to invoice excluded goods or services for income
- Currency buying and selling professionals
- Transfer prices
- Producer of exempt goods or services
- Obtaining NIT
- To declare entry or exit from the country of foreign currency or legal tender
- Obligation to declare on behalf of third parties
- Sales withholding agent
- Consolidated transfer pricing statement
- Individual transfer pricing declaration
Check your tax obligations
Remember that this process is ideal to carry out before registering in form 036, this way you will be able to check the boxes corresponding to the tax obligations that apply to your activity. However, this process will also be useful for those people who have a current form 036 and wish to verify if the tax obligations presented in their form belong to their activity.
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