This is how it affects (both for better and for worse) that the Treasury has not yet returned the amount of the 2020 Income

The campaign for the 2020 Income Statement was closed for a long time. Carried out from April to June 2021, the accounts from two years ago are already almost completely collected or entered by the Tax Agency. However, there are still a certain number of people pending to close their files to whom the delay can affect them in different ways.

To return or to pay. They are the two concepts that tend to concern Spaniards the most as the income campaign opens and the reason why many of them rush to render accounts with the Treasury to enter their amounts as soon as possible and not have to fall into delays.

A slowness of terms where the Tax Agency always plays with better cards than taxpayers, and is that while for these the payment term ends on June 30, except for some very few exceptions, for the treasury there is more time since there are many files to close.

There is still 2.3% of requests to return

A number that for the beginning of 2022 already stands at 97.7% of returns of the total (almost 14 million people came out to return on a total of almost 22 million declarations). Therefore, if you are still among that reduced 2.3% that is still pending the income of the Treasury, the situation may be beneficial or detrimental depending on the case.

The Treasury must pay 3.75% of the amount of the fine for the delay

In this way, it will be good if the Treasury has been delayed, for various reasons, and late payment interest has to be paid. Up to 3.75% per year, on the amount owed, from the date the term expires (six months from June 30 or from the filing of the return if it was out of the deadline) until the date the payment is ordered.

Tardies are generally not good and can lead to a change to money order

On the other hand, it can also be bad for the taxpayer in the event that the Tax Agency is taking time to return because there is an investigation through which can lead instead to a statement to be paid. In this case, there may be sanctions through heavy fines, since the Treasury would understand that there were errors in the presentation.

So you can check the status of your return

In any case, the status of a return can always be checked through the Tax Agency website. In the section Income 2020 you can obtain the information in ‘Declarations already filed’ through ‘How to consult a return’. Once inside, you will have to identify yourself from where it will be detailed that the statement “It’s being processed“, “is being checked” The “has already been processed“.

In the latter case, it is expected that in the next few days, in a short period of time, the final income of the Treasury will already be in the account of each taxpayer. Otherwise, you will have to wait and trust that the end result will continue to be returned and will not be accountable to a dangerous enemy such as the Tax Agency.