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V0967-21 19 April 2021 · SG de Impuestos sobre la Renta de las Personas Físicas Criterion in force
IRPF · rendimientos del trabajo

Back pay for professional career progression is taxable in the year the administrative resolution becomes enforceable

A civil servant inquired whether back pay for a professional career supplement relating to 2019 should be taxed in 2019 or 2020. The Directorate General for Taxes (DGT) ruled that such payments must be taxed in the year in which the administrative resolution recognising them becomes enforceable.

The question raised

Question posed: Temporal allocation of the aforementioned arrears.

The DGT's ruling

Arrears of the professional career supplement constitute earned income from employment. Their temporal allocation is governed by Article 14.1 of the Personal Income Tax Law, which establishes that they must be allocated to the tax period in which they become due to the recipient. In this case, enforceability is determined by the administrative resolution of recognition; therefore, the arrears are taxed in the year in which said resolution is issued.

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