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V0094-21 27 January 2021 · SG de Impuestos Patrimoniales, Tasas y Precios Públicos Criterion in force
ISD · repudiación de herencia

Renouncing an inheritance should not trigger Income Tax or Wealth Tax on the renounced portion

A taxpayer wishes to make a pure and simple renunciation of an inheritance for which the tax liability has already expired. The DGT clarifies that, as the assets were never integrated into their estate, they are not required to declare capital gains or include said assets in their Wealth Tax.

The question raised

Question raised: Taxation of the operation for the taxpayer.

The DGT's ruling

Repudiation has retroactive effects to the death of the decedent, whereby the assets pass directly to the beneficiary without passing through the repudiator. In Wealth Tax, the repudiator must not include the repudiated assets as they were not the owner thereof. In Personal Income Tax, no capital gain or loss occurs for the repudiator because their assets undergo no alteration. The legal fiction of donation by prescription only affects Inheritance and Gift Tax to tax the beneficiary.

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