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The Tax Agency is determined to

"strengthen control" over "Spaniards who pretend to reside abroad

.

"

This is included in the Annual Tax Control Plan that the Treasury has published this Monday in the Official State Gazette (BOE), and at a time marked by the flight of numerous youtubers to Andorra to avoid paying taxes.

"The Tax Agency will promote in 2021 a specific line to reinforce the control of natural persons who appear to be non-residents in Spain," they explain from the body led by Jesús Gascón.

"The possibility of a reinforced control using massive data analysis tools is a novelty in the field of relevant 'offshored' assets and marks a new impulse for the tax verification of this taxpayer profile", he adds.

That is, the

Treasury will use what is called

Big Data

to carry out this control

.

This reinforcement of the Tax Agency comes just a few days after Rubén Doblas Gundersen, a video producer known as ElRubius and youtuber with the most followers in Spain, announced his decision to move to Andorra to pay less taxes.

In this way, he followed the example of other youtubers who in recent years have done the same, such as Willyrex, Vegetta777, Lolito or Wall Street Wolverine.

All of them have a similar profile: high income, so they must pay the maximum rate in personal income tax, the possibility of doing their work from anywhere in the world and

the conviction that they pay too much taxes

.

Some of them, like ElRubius himself, have pointed out that there are also other reasons such as "having friends close by" or enjoying greater anonymity.

But in all cases they recognize that paying significantly lower taxes has been crucial.

This situation is clearly stated in personal income tax, which in Andorra remains at 10% while the maximum rate is around 50%.

According to the requirements of the Treasury, "a natural person is a resident in Spanish territory when any of the following circumstances occurs".

"

That remains more than 183 days

, during the

calendar

year, in Spanish territory, that

the main nucleus or the base of its activities

or economic interests

reside in Spain

directly or indirectly or that

the spouse

not legally separated and

habitually resides in Spain

and minor children who depend on this natural person. This third assumption admits evidence to the contrary. "

And that is what the Treasury will check especially from this year, a situation that in addition to the aforementioned youtubers also affects, for example,

Spanish athletes

who have their tax residence fixed in countries with low taxation.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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