• Treasury Income Campaign tightens its control over taxpayers with cryptocurrencies and triggers 1,400% of notices

«According to the data available to the AEAT [State Tax Administration Agency], you have carried out rental operations.

We remind you that, in case you have received income for this reason

, it must be included in your declaration, as well as any type of income for which you must pay taxes and do not appear in your tax data.

The text that precedes, to which this newspaper has had access, is the one that the Treasury includes in the 713,000 notices to taxpayers with flats for rent that it is sending this year.

to homemade.

And it does so to remind them, as the warning itself indicates, that they must pay taxes on the possible income they have received for this concept.

It is one of the main fields of action and control of the Tax Agency, which, within the framework of the 2021 Income campaign that began yesterday, has significantly increased notices to owners of flats for rent.

Almost an 80% increase

compared to the nearly 400,000 warnings that it sent during the previous year.

The notices are received, at the time of making their declaration, by the

taxpayer for whom the Treasury has proof

that they have rented a property

.

It is possible in specific cases, they explain in the Tax Agency, that this information is not completely correct, although the usual thing in the vast majority of cases is that the data is exact.

And the warning does not seek to regularize possible past exercises, since in that case it would proceed through a parallel declaration.

In this case, it is only sought that they declare for the income corresponding to the current rental campaign.

"The notices about rentals", adds the body directed by Jesús Gascón, "

are nourished by the information on guarantees provided by the autonomous communities

."

"The information that is being received again, since the middle of the year, through the 179 model of tourist leases is already incorporated directly into the tax data, so that it does not require a specific notice," he points out.

Warnings to landlords are not, however, the ones that have increased the most.

In fact, those aimed at investors in cryptocurrencies do much more: from just 14,800 ads last year to 233,000 this year,

which means multiplying the figure by 15

.

In this case, the warning is as follows: «The Tax Agency

has information on operations carried out with virtual currencies

.

If you had carried out virtual currency sales operations, remember that you must declare the capital gain or loss.

The strong increase in notifications for these assets has a double origin.

On the one hand, that

more and more citizens invest in cryptocurrencies

and, in parallel, that information from banking entities has increased.

“The number of warnings about virtual currencies is much higher than the previous year.

The reason why the figure increases over that corresponding to the last campaign is because the information sent by financial institutions has been expanded, which fundamentally corresponds to the increase in operations with virtual currencies in recent times," he explains. the Tax Agency.

There is a third relevant area in terms of notices by the Treasury: those made to

taxpayers with income abroad

.

The figure here is reduced compared to last year because "after several years of notices based on the information from the Administrative Cooperation Directive [DAC], the number is now reduced to concentrate these notices on the most recent information received", explains the body.

But even so, the total number of warnings for rents abroad exceeds 850,000, which if added to those previously noted for real estate and cryptocurrencies, makes a

total of 1.8 million warnings

.

fundraising goal

All this will contribute to the Treasury's total collection continuing to grow strongly and marking a new all-time high, which is the forecast for this year.

Minister Montero pointed to a figure of 232,352 million, something that Gascón also stated yesterday in his appearance in Congress that will be achieved "without many problems"

after a "very positive" start to the year

.

And of course, the beginning of 2022 has been positive in terms of tax revenue, not in vain in the first two months the joint data soared more than 20%.

Inflation explains a large part of this

increase

, as evidenced by the fact that VAT rose 22% and contributed almost 20,000 million.

The Tax Agency points out that the good progress of economic activity is also key, a factor that could be mitigated at least partially by the war in Ukraine.

But even so, everything indicates that

Treasury revenues are headed for another record

.

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