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V2000-16 ·10 May 2016 ·consulta-vinculante Medium impact
Tax

VAT on unpaid invoices cannot be recovered if VAT Act deadlines and requirements are not met

A notary inquired whether it was possible to recover VAT from a debt dating back to 2000 and to deduct the insolvency provision for Personal Income Tax (IRPF) purposes. The Directorate General for Taxes (DGT) ruled that the VAT cannot be recovered as the legal deadlines have expired. Furthermore, the IRPF deduction will depend on when the expense should have been recorded, warning that if the tax year is statute-barred, the deduction will not be permitted.

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This ruling reinforces the strict adherence to statutory deadlines for VAT recovery and clarifies the temporal rules for deducting bad debt provisions in personal income tax.

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2016-05-10PublishedPublished in the BOE
Official text Based on BOE data (boe.es). Information, not advice.

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