[Anonymous]

i understand non-residents have to pay 24% tax on rental income. Does anyone know if you can claim back tax on rental income gained when the rental income is less than the mortgage payment i need to make each month? ie) I’m not going to make any profit. ie) can you claim any of this tax back. if so, how? I have a mortgage with a spanish bank. rent would get paid into spanish bank account, to help me pay mortgage.
thanks

[katy]

I think Non-residents cannot claim anything back. Most don’t declare and just pay the notional tax.

[Anonymous]

Langan: As a non resident you are not allowed to claim any expenses against your rental income. Mortgage interest payment is an expense and thus cannot be claimed.

The above is a clear discrimination against non residents who can be and in most cases are EU residents. This discrimination had also been applied on Capital gains Tax until the change over in 2007. SAdly this aspect had not been looked at.

I would look at this further. Here the Government of Spain is fleecing foreigner and sending a signal to Developers, Banks, Estate Agents. Lawyers, Mobile phones etc, that it is OK to carry on with the activity of milking foreignors.

Perhaps, its one of the reasons apart from a biased rent act, poor Court system that buy to let has never taken off in Spain. There are nearly 800,000 units sitting idle and people cant find reasonably priced accommodation to rent.

[Anonymous]

thanks for your comments

[Anonymous]

Hi, why is the subject of rentals not being brought up in the european courts like the cgt issue was?

thanks

[Anonymous]

I did ask the same question, when the CGT was changed. Perhaps Mark can enlighten us.

[Author]

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