Understanding Public Accounting, Finance Acts, and Budget Legality

Key Aspects of National Public Accounting

The nation’s public accounting is characterized as an integrated, unique, and uniform accounting system. It’s integrated because it reflects all resources and bonds. It’s unique because it’s singular, not allowing other accounting systems. It’s uniform because all similar economic facts should be registered the same way.

The Finance Act

The government budget is a legal reserve established by law. The Budget Act is a periodic law approving the government’s revenue

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Key Concepts of Tax Law: Legal Nature, Retroactivity, and More

Key Concepts in Tax Law

Legal Nature of Tax Provisions

Tax revenue and expenditure are the main fields of financial activity; therefore, the laws that regulate them are key to financial ordering. Although in the past, tax provisions were considered exceptional rules, this consideration is no longer valid. Tax provisions, like all legal rules, constitute a mandate with social efficiency and an organizing purpose, possessing the characteristics of any legal rule:

  • The existence of a will that derives
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Taxable Events, Exemptions, and Liability Termination

Taxable Event, Non-Liability, and Exemption

The taxable event is the circumstance defined by law that triggers the obligation for the taxpayer to make a coercive economic contribution. Its occurrence legally binds the taxpayer to the tax payment obligation, as defined in Article 20 of the LGT (General Tax Law).

The taxable event is the specific situation established by law for each tax, and its occurrence gives rise to the main tax obligation. The law may refine the definition of the taxable event

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Structure of Public Administration in Spain

General State Administration (AGE)

The General State Administration (Administración General del Estado – AGE) acts across three dimensions:

  1. Central: Government level.
  2. Peripheral: Delegates and Sub-delegates.
  3. Functional: Autonomous agencies and public enterprises.

Central Administration

The Central Administration implements the administrative policy of the Government. To perform these actions, it is organized into departments (ministries) with central services.

The Prime Minister is the most important

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Objective Law vs. Subjective Right: A Legal Framework

Objective Law vs. Subjective Right

This is the distinction between Derecho objetivo (law) and derecho subjetivo (right).

  • Derecho objetivo (law): It is the set of principles and norms to which human relations in society are subjected. It is a code broad enough to address all aspects that can arise in every personal or social interaction. Thus, among other things, law (Derecho objetivo) establishes how legal contracts must be established between individuals, what duties a worker has, what is considered
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Tax Subjects: Active, Taxpayer, Substitute, and Solidarity

Active Subject: The active subject of a tax is the public entity that develops the procedures for the application of the tribute. Therefore, we can define the active subject as the “public entity holder of the administrative power for the management and requirement of the tribute.” Since the establishment of taxes can only be made by the holders of the financial power (article 133 CE: the state, the CCAA, and the local corporations), in the cases that other public entities different from these

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