Taxes & Accounting in Torrevieja
Costa Blanca South, Alicante province
Torrevieja has one of the highest shares of foreign residents of any Spanish municipality, and a correspondingly high number of people who are not sure which country they are tax resident in. Splitting the year between Torrevieja and a home country is extremely common here, and it is precisely the situation where day counts, family ties and the location of your interests decide the outcome.
Getting that determination on paper early is worth more than any deduction. Once residency is settled, everything else — which return you file, what you must report, how a foreign pension or rental is treated — follows from it. Guessing at it, or assuming that fewer than half the year abroad settles the matter, is how people end up filing in two countries and being questioned in both.
Local context: Torrevieja
| Extranjería office | None locally — appointments are held at the Oficina de Extranjería de Alicante, roughly 50 km up the coast |
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| Local registrations | Empadronamiento and civil-registry steps are done at the Ayuntamiento de Torrevieja |
| Local context | Among the highest shares of foreign residents of any Spanish municipality, with a property market built around non-resident buyers |
| Work authorisation | Granted by the central Oficina de Extranjería |
| Tax administration | Agencia Tributaria (state) + Generalitat Valenciana for regional taxes |
| Forms and notices | May be issued in Valencian; Spanish is always available on request |
Sources: Cita previa — Sede electrónica · Portal de Inmigración · Agencia Tributaria
What we handle: Taxes & Accounting
Beckham Law, autónomo filings, IRPF, Modelo 720 and bookkeeping.
- Non-resident income tax (IRNR)
- Beckham Law special regime eligibility & application
- Autónomo quarterly filings (IVA, IRPF)
- Annual income tax return (IRPF)
Questions about this service
I spend about half the year in Torrevieja. Am I a Spanish tax resident?
Day count is one test, not the only one. Where your spouse and dependent children live, and where the centre of your economic interests sits, can make you resident even below the day threshold. Half a year is exactly the ambiguous zone where you want this decided formally rather than assumed.
Does owning my home here make me tax resident?
Not on its own. Property ownership creates its own obligations — non-resident owners have annual duties even without renting out — but it is not the test for residency. Many people here owe something to Spain as non-residents and correctly file that way for years.
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