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V3316-19 ·3 December 2019 ·consulta-vinculante Medium impact
Tax

To be classified as a factory, manufacturing or transformation processes are required, with other operations permitted under specific conditions

A company has requested clarification on whether it must perform all operations listed in the law (extraction, manufacturing, transformation, storage, receipt, and dispatch) to be classified as a hydrocarbon factory. The Directorate-General for Taxes (DGT) responded that the core requirement is manufacturing, and that the other activities are complementary to facilitate operations.

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This ruling clarifies the legal definition of a 'factory' for tax purposes, confirming that the primary activity of manufacturing is the determining factor, rather than the performance of every single activity listed in the legislation.

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2019-12-03PublishedPublished in the BOE
Official text Based on BOE data (boe.es). Information, not advice.

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