Overview
- The Official State Gazette published the suppression of the planned obligation for subsidy recipients to file the 2026 income tax return.
- Unemployed people with no income beyond SEPE benefits will not be required to file, while those who also earned wages or meet standard thresholds must still submit a return.
- The Finance Ministry had intended to remove income thresholds so that all beneficiaries filed in 2026 under changes enabled by Real Decreto-Ley 2/2024.
- The government cites prior responsibility declarations signed by beneficiaries and enhanced interoperability with the Tax Agency as reasons the extra filing step is unnecessary.
- Roughly 2.5 million people are unemployed and about seven in ten receive benefits, a group that had raised concerns that missing a filing could risk SEPE sanctions.