Treasury retains 15.6 million euros of returns filed more than six months ago

MADRID, 29 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Tax Agency (AEAT) has withheld 15.6 million euros from 4,882 returns to be returned while waiting to determine whether or not to start a check, six months or more after the deadline for filing the return.

This is the information sent by the Ministry of Finance to the Congress of Deputies in a response, collected by Europa Press, to the question sent by the deputies of Vox Macarena Olona, ​​Inés Cañizares, Víctor González Coello de Portugal, Pablo Sáez and Rubén Manso .

The Vox deputies asked the Treasury for the total amount of money paid by citizens and companies withheld by the Tax Agency, once the Supreme Court has issued a ruling on prohibiting the withholding of taxes if six months have passed without an investigation having been initiated. management process, inspection or stoppage that justifies the delay.

In its response, the Treasury details the number of declarations to be returned in personal income tax, corporate income tax and VAT for years that have not prescribed and that, six months after the end of the term or from the date of their extemporaneous presentation, have not been ordered. the relevant return or a verification procedure has not been initiated (or is not expected imminently).

Specifically, in the IRPF there are 4,126 declarations that meet these conditions for an amount of 2,983,201.94 euros; 522 declarations for 7,236,844.85 euros in Corporation Tax; and 234 declarations amounting to 5,391,049.69 euros in terms of VAT, quarterly and monthly.

The Treasury concludes its response by emphasizing that the reason for the existence of these withheld returns is that the origin of initiating a verification procedure is being assessed "before the risk that the automatic ordering of the return entails without carrying out a prior verification".