Excellent news:  Inheritance tax discrimination of non residents has come to an end, but you must claim it when you file your inheritance tax returns as the tax office  will not offer it to you unless you do.  Make sure that when you file your inheritance tax as a non resident beneficiary that your solicitor
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Spanish probate .Spanish inheritance . Valuations of real estate .If you inherit  a property in Spain, it is essential that  the real estate is valued correctly. The legal obligation is to value the property at market value. Now that inheritance tax in Andalucía is so advantageous the biggest mistakes we see lately are generally  to
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Q. My husband deceased a year ago in the u.k. while on holiday even though we have both residen in Mojacar for over 20 year . He has left me half of a villa and a bank account (both in Mojacar). The total value of the estate was just over 120000 euro, and I paid
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Legal Corner.  By Michael Davies. Abogado/Solicitor. Does a non -resident (of Spain ) heir pay inheritance tax in Spain of funds left to him in Jersey by a resident in Spain? Question: My deceased father (a resident in Mojacar) made a will leaving his worldwide assets to me (I am resident in London). The estate
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Case C-127/12 establishes that Spain must stop discriminating against non-resident heirs. On the 3rd of September 2014, the ECJ entered/made a judgment resolving that the Spanish Inheritance Tax imposes restrictions on the free movement of capital, one of the fundamental principles of the EU’s Single Market. More precisely, as stated by the ECJ decision, the
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