How to pay less capital gains in Barcelona

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In principle, when selling your apartment in Barcelona , ​​one of the taxes that you must pay is the municipal capital gain. Although there are ways to save on it or even save it, and that is what we are going to talk to you about today: about how to pay less capital gains in Barcelona or, directly, not pay it at all.

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The capital gain is a self-assessing tax, and you should take advantage of it
That the capital gain is a self-assessing tax means that Japan phone-number list it is the citizen himself who settles it and, above all, who chooses how to settle it. Because yes, the question about how to calculate capital gains in Barcelona has two answers, since there are two methods:

The actual method.
The objective method.
In the real method, the difference between the sale value and the purchase value prevails. For its part, the objective method gives more importance to the cadastral value of the land and the time elapsed between purchase and sale. It's about doing a test with both and choosing the most favorable one . Of all the ways to pay less capital gains in Barcelona, ​​this is the only one that anyone can use.  

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How to save municipal capital gains in Barcelona
Look at the official name of the capital gains tax: Tax on the Increase in the Value of Urban Land (IIVTNU). This full name already gives us the two conditions to have to pay the capital gain:  

There must have been an increase in value .
The land must be urban in nature .
That is, if the home is built on rustic land or there has been no increase, the capital gain is not paid .




Regarding the first case, it should not be possible. A rustic land, by definition, is that which cannot be developed and it is not permitted to build on it . However, perhaps you have inherited an old rural house on the outskirts of Barcelona, ​​aged outside of the most recent legality. In that case, to sell the house or land, you will not pay the capital gain.

Regarding the increase in value, it may be that the sale generated losses . Previously, the tax would have been paid the same, but following a ruling from the Constitutional Court of May 2017, the seller who has suffered losses with the sale will be able to claim the capital gain paid to the city council .