Tax Liability: Basic Concepts and Elements

Tax Liability: General Concepts

Serious Fact: A hypothetical set of circumstances, established by law, to determine the tax, and whose occurrence gives rise to a tax obligation.

Contributor: Natural or legal persons, administrators, or holders of property affected by taxes.

Subject of Tax: A person who must withhold or pay a particular tax.

Taxable Income: The quantification of the serious incident on which to apply the tax rate directly to determine the amount of tax liability.

Tax Rate: The amount

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Tax Law Principles: Non-Confiscation, Legality, Budgetary Acts

Non-Confiscation Principle in Tax Law

The non-confiscation principle is a limit on the progressiveness of taxation. It derives from the constitutional recognition of property rights and the internal logic of the ability to pay. Its purpose is to prevent potentially pathological behavior of coercive economic benefits; in other words, an extreme application of progressiveness. It’s a type of punishment, as you are deprived of your property to compensate. It is established as a limit for the results

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Autonomous Communities: Powers and Financial Autonomy

Subdivisions of the Autonomous Communities

The Autonomous Communities (CCAA) hold powers in matters of territorial organization, with the following limits:

  1. Institutional guarantee of local autonomy of corporations.
  2. Guarantee a minimum.
  3. State competition of the legal foundations of public administrations. The CCAA will have executive powers and legislative development if they have assumed responsibility for administration.
  4. There are provincial provinces, which accounts for an increase in Navarra powers
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Understanding Sovereignty: Key Features and Historical Phases

The concept of sovereignty is linked to the idea that any request is subject to some criterion or justification. For Bodin and Hobbes, ‘absolute’ cannot mean the same as ‘with full arbitrariness’.

Key Features of Sovereignty

We can state the features that persist in the idea of sovereignty:

  • It is a political power higher than any other power in society, whose decisions can be imposed.
  • It operates from a general justification in reference to a social interest.
  • What characterizes it is the power to establish
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EU Competition Law: Prohibited Conducts

Prohibited conducts include collusion (Article 101 TFEU and Article 1 LDC) and abuse of a dominant position (Article 102 TFEU and Article 2 LDC). Controlled conducts include mergers (Regulation 139/2004 and Articles 7-10 LDC) and state aids (Articles 107-109 TFEU and Article 11 LDC).

Relevant Market

The definition of the Relevant Market (RM) is provided in the Commission Notice on the definition of the Relevant Market for the purposes of Community Competition Law. It is a concept also used in national

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VAT Application Management: Key Obligations

VAT Application Management

1. Statements Census

The census of entrepreneurs is part of the census of taxpayers, regulated in the Tax Code and the Regulations of the Tax Inspectorate. Statements include declarations of commencement, modification, and cessation.

  • Commencement (High): Notifies the administration of the start of economic activity.
  • Modification (Change): Reports changes to the registered data.
  • Cessation (Low): Indicates the effective end of the activity.

2. Invoices

Invoice regulation is

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