{"id":45967,"date":"2022-05-08T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/unlikely-spain-will-accept-lockdown-as-reason-for-avoiding-tax-residency-says-isolas\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T12:26:01","slug":"unlikely-spain-will-accept-lockdown-as-reason-for-avoiding-tax-residency-says-isolas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/unlikely-spain-will-accept-lockdown-as-reason-for-avoiding-tax-residency-says-isolas\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely Spain will accept lockdown as reason for avoiding tax residency, says Isolas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is unlikely that the Covid-19 lock-down will be accepted by the Spanish authorities as a valid reason for avoiding tax residency in Spain for the current tax year.<\/p>\n<p>This according to the law firm Isolas, which has drawn attention to a recent ruling by the Directorate-General of Tax in Spain, who determined that days spent in Spain by a Lebanese family locked down there as a result of the pandemic, should be taken into account for determining their tax residency in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s position appears to contradict a guideline by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD suggested that tax authorities should not count days spent there as a result of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>But Isolas Partner Adrian Pilcher told GBC the reasons apparently\u00a0underpinning the Spanish authorities\u2019 decision for the Lebanese family will likely also apply to Gibraltar residents.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=30JinjlI45w\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unlikely that the Covid-19 lock-down will be accepted by the Spanish authorities as a valid reason for avoiding tax residency in Spain for the current tax year. This according to the law firm Isolas, which has drawn attention to a recent ruling by the Directorate-General of Tax in Spain, who determined that days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[127284,16381,22562,127285,15973,10125,211,652,1155],"class_list":["post-45967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","tag-28-08-2020","tag-accept","tag-avoiding","tag-isolas","tag-lockdown","tag-reason","tag-residency","tag-spain","tag-tax","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}