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Spanish Tax Advice for 2018 return with redundancy pay

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#1 ·
Hello!

I have worked in Spain for a few years now and previously when it came to filling out the Renta WEB tax return, even though it wasn't easy (due to my limited Spanish), it didn't require too much work (as I basically just had to confirm details etc).*

Unfortunately last year my company that brought me to Spain made me redundant (due to the work no longer being there), so I was retrenched for what they call 'objective' reasons. As a part of being made retrenched I was given an additional payment that I received which I was told was non-taxable (listed on the statement as 'INDEMNIZACION POR CAUSAS OBJETIVAS').

When I went into Renta WEB I saw that what it calls the net income figure really didn't add up to what I received as payments in total (e.g. total net income). If I add in the figure for what I was told would be non-taxable then at least it comes up with a similar figure.*

So now my issue is that I don't know for certain whether the Renta WEB form has or hasn't included this tax-free amount (which i've confirmed from research is non-taxable), as I don't know if my previous employer listed this as one of my payments or not.*

Does anyone else have experience with this? Does anyone know if I need to list this somewhere in the tax return form, so that I don't pay more tax than I actually owe?

I would've gotten onto this much sooner had I known this issue would arise, but I didn't expect it, so thought it would be similar to other years (in terms of just confirming details and submitting it), so left it till this week.

Any advice received would be much welcome!
 
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#3 ·
Thanks for the advice, unfortunately I happen to be abroad at the moment. I know there is a number to contact for assistance with Hacienda, but my level of Spanish is unfortunately not quite good enough to properly explain myself over the phone and they don't understand English either.
 
#6 · (Edited)
You could go through a legal advisor in Spain ( if your away abroad ) to goto the Hacienda
( on your behalf ) to get it sorted, although it will undoubtedly cost you and might ?
involve giving them Power of Attorney ??

Better still get it sorted through an english speaking Gestor.
 
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