Spanish departure, without the full-service bill

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Stop paying asesores and abogados premium hourly rates to organise paperwork you can prepare efficiently. ExitSpain walks you through the facts the Agencia Tributaria actually looks at, organises your evidence, compiles a residency position file, and puts it in front of an experienced reviewer before you file your final resident-year Renta.

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🇪🇸 Spain🇦🇪 Dubai

One move. One organised file.

Your documents, without the guesswork.
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New-country leaseA home for your next chapter
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Residence documentYour status abroad
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Bank statementYour everyday financial ties
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Driver's licenceAdd it when available
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The €447 guided departure package

Do the simple work once.
Pay experts for judgment — not administration.

Traditional full-service departure engagements get expensive when asesores fiscales, abogados and valuers each bill hourly for gathering the same facts. Software handles the organisation and drafting; experts handle the parts that require judgment.

€447Prepared residency file + written review
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01

Start the process

Tell us where you are moving, when you are leaving and the basic facts of your Spanish departure.

02

Upload your documents

Add evidence of your new life abroad and the Spanish ties you have changed, ended or retained.

03

Answer the questionnaire

Work through structured questions covering days in Spain, housing, family, work, business interests, investments, banking, pensions and the other connections the Agencia Tributaria weighs.

04

We compile your residency file

The software organises your answers and evidence into a structured departure file: your position under the 183-day and economic-interests tests, the family presumption, the tax-haven quarantine and your art. 95 bis exit-tax exposure.

05

Expert review + written evaluation

Our team reviews the file and evidence, provides a written evaluation of your residency position and flags what to fix before you file.

06

You decide how to proceed

You receive the prepared file and review. You decide whether to file on that basis, ask the Dirección General de Tributos for a binding consulta, or obtain specialist advice first.

No open-ended hourly meter.

The core guided preparation and review is €447. Complex tax, valuation or specialist work is scoped and quoted separately, only if your situation requires it.

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Documents are stored privately when you explicitly save them. We use restricted access and do not sell or share your information.

01 / Understand the rules

There is no NR73 in Spain.
Here is what replaces it.

Spain has no departure form and no residency-opinion request. You are resident or non-resident for the whole calendar year, you self-assess against article 9 of the IRPF law, you update your tax domicile on Modelo 030, and you carry the evidence — above all a foreign tax-residence certificate — in case the Agencia Tributaria asks. Getting the file right before you leave is what protects you later.

The residency test

183 days, centre of economic interests, and a family presumption.

You are a Spanish tax resident for a calendar year if any of these applies: you spend more than 183 days in Spain (sporadic absences count as days in Spain unless you prove tax residence in another country); or the main centre or base of your activities or economic interests is in Spain, directly or indirectly. There is also a rebuttable presumption that you are resident if your spouse (not legally separated) and dependent minor children habitually live in Spain.

Spain's central tax tribunal (TEAC) has confirmed that 'days of presence' include certified days, the days presumed between two certified presences, and sporadic absences — so the day count is built from evidence, not intention. Proof of residence elsewhere means a certificate from the foreign tax authority, valid for one year.

AEAT: tax residence of individuals in Spain ↗
The quarantine rule

Spanish nationals moving to a listed jurisdiction stay resident for five years.

Article 8.2 of the IRPF law keeps a Spanish national who moves to a non-cooperative jurisdiction taxable as a Spanish resident in the year of the move and the four following tax years. The list is set by Orden HFP/115/2023 and still includes the Cayman Islands, Bahrain, Bermuda, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands, among others. Orden HAC/649/2026 removed Barbados, Dominica, Gibraltar, Samoa, the Seychelles and Trinidad and Tobago with effect from 28 June 2026, applying to IRPF for tax periods that begin after that date.

For anyone moving to a listed jurisdiction, the Agencia Tributaria can also demand proof that you were physically present there for 183 days in the year. The UAE, Panama and Paraguay are not on the Spanish list.

BOE: Orden HFP/115/2023, list of non-cooperative jurisdictions (consolidated) ↗
If you want certainty

A binding consulta is the closest thing to an opinion.

The Agencia Tributaria does not issue residency opinions on departure. You can put a written consulta tributaria to the Dirección General de Tributos under articles 88 and 89 of the Ley General Tributaria: it must be filed before the filing deadline for the tax concerned, the answer is due within six months, and it binds the tax administration for your facts. The facts you describe are what you are bound to — which is why the file needs assembling carefully first.

For everyday proof, the document that matters is a tax-residence certificate from your new country's tax authority. Spain treats it as valid for one year, so plan to renew it.

Dirección General de Tributos: written tax consultations (arts. 88–89 LGT) ↗
Separate from your return

There is no split year. Your departure year is all-resident or all-non-resident.

Spain does not prorate. If you were resident under article 9 for the year you leave, you file a full-year Renta (Modelo 100) on worldwide income the following spring — Renta 2025 ran from 8 April to 30 June 2026 — plus Modelo 720 for foreign assets (1 January to 31 March) and Modelo 714 wealth tax if you are over the thresholds. If you were not resident for that year, you owe only IRNR on Spanish-source income for the whole year, filed on Modelo 210, even for the months you were physically in Spain.

Either way, tell the Agencia Tributaria your new tax domicile on Modelo 030 within three months of the change, and — if your employer is sending you abroad — file Modelo 247 so payroll can switch to non-resident withholding.

AEAT: Renta 2025 filing period ↗
Why this matters

A flight changes
your location.
The facts tell the rest.

Spanish tax obligations depend on residency. Residents pay IRPF on worldwide income and Impuesto sobre el Patrimonio on worldwide wealth; non-residents pay IRNR on Spanish-source income only, at flat rates, and wealth tax only on Spanish assets. The Agencia Tributaria decides which you are by counting days and locating your economic life, not by reading your departure date.

Read the AEAT's residency overview ↗

Where do you sleep?

The 183-day test is arithmetic: certified days, presumed days between them, and sporadic absences that count against you unless you can prove residence elsewhere. A home kept available in Spain makes every absence look sporadic.

Where is your family?

A spouse and dependent minor children who stay in Spain trigger a legal presumption that you are resident too. It can be rebutted, but only with evidence, not silence.

Where is your economic life?

Business, employment, investments, property and the place you manage your wealth locate your 'centre of economic interests'. Move the substance, not just the address.

02 / A simple way forward

From scattered documents
to a clear next step.

You don't need everything on day one. Start with what you know and keep track of the gaps.

01

Tell the story of your move

Choose your destination and record the key facts, dates and Spanish ties.

02

Build your document file

Keep new-country evidence and changes to Spanish ties in separate, labelled sections.

03

Get reviewed before you file

Our team reviews your residency file and evidence, provides an advisory opinion and recommends revisions before you file or seek a consulta.

Guided preparation. Human review.

You do the groundwork.
Our team reviews the final file.

You should not have to start from a blank page, or pay a professional to chase every document. Build the file yourself; have it reviewed before you rely on it.

A reviewed residency file

Our team reviews your position under each test, your supporting documents and departure narrative, provides an advisory opinion and recommends revisions.

A human review of the facts and evidence, not just a completed checklist.

Less administration. Lower preparation costs.

You gather documents and answer the guided questions. We focus professional time on reviewing your prepared file rather than assembling it from scratch.

Designed to cost less than having a firm manage every preparation task.

Specialists for the complex parts

Have a company, a large share portfolio, a rental property or a Beckham-regime history? We can connect you with asesores fiscales and valuers for the pieces that need them.

The right specialist for the work your situation actually requires.

A more focused way to get there

Do not pay full-service rates
for paperwork you can organise.

Complex, full-service Spanish departures can run into tens of thousands of euros in combined tax, legal and valuation fees once the art. 95 bis exit tax, a deferral request, wealth tax and a company are in play.

This refers to broader, multi-specialist engagements, not residency preparation alone. Actual fees and savings vary.

Beyond the residency question

The art. 95 bis exit tax,
without the guesswork.

Spain does have an exit tax, but only for long-term residents with large shareholdings. If you were resident for at least 10 of the last 15 tax years and, on your last day as a resident, your shares and fund units are worth more than €4,000,000 — or you hold more than 25% of a company and that stake is worth more than €1,000,000 — the unrealised gain is taxed in your final resident-year return, with no penalty, interest or surcharge if you file the complementary return on time. Moving to another EU/EEA state with information exchange lets you elect on Modelo 113 to hold the tax over for ten years; a temporary posting can qualify for a deferral with guarantees; and if you come back without having sold, the tax is refunded. Below those thresholds there is no deemed disposal — but the four-year tax-haven quarantine, Spanish property, and wealth tax follow you regardless.

AEAT: special scheme — capital gains on change of residence (art. 95 bis) ↗
ASESOR FISCAL

Tax analysis and filings

An asesor fiscal (typically an economista or abogado registered with REAF or AEDAF) can model your art. 95 bis exposure, the deferral or Modelo 113 election, wealth-tax position and your final Renta.

VALUER

Share and business valuations

A qualified valuer can support the market value of unlisted shares — the law uses the higher of net equity and 20% capitalisation of average profits — and of business interests on your last day as a resident.

Prepare it yourself. Get it reviewed. Bring in specialists when needed.

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Team review is a separate, agreed professional engagement. Our advisory opinion is not a determination by the Agencia Tributaria.

03 / Know what to gather

Two sides of the move.
One practical checklist.

These are suggested evidence categories, not a universal AEAT document requirement. Include what's relevant to your situation.

Your new country

Establishing your life abroad

  • Lease or proof of housingNames, address, dates and the living arrangement.
  • New driver's licenceIf issued and applicable to your situation.
  • Residence or immigration documentThe visa or permit that applies to your status — and whether it is permanent.
  • Local bank statementEvidence of an account in your new country.
Other useful context: employment, utilities, health coverage and travel records.
Spain

Documenting what changed

  • Consular registration (Registro de Matrícula Consular)Spanish nationals who move abroad must register as residents at the consulate. That registration puts you on the PERE and automatically removes you from your municipal padrón and the domestic electoral census.
  • Modelo 030 — new tax domicile abroadCommunicate your foreign tax domicile to the Agencia Tributaria within three months of the change (sooner if your Renta deadline comes first).
  • Employer notice — Modelo 247If your employer is posting you abroad, file Modelo 247 from 30 days before departure so payroll can withhold under IRNR rules; keep the employer's posting letter.
  • Seguridad Social and healthcareDecide whether to keep contributing through the convenio especial for Spanish emigrants (form TA.0040, no prior contribution period required); tell your regional health service you are leaving and keep the letters.
  • Bank, property and pension updatesAsk your bank to reclassify you as a non-resident, appoint a representative if you keep property, and update pension providers with a foreign address so withholding switches to IRNR.
Keeping a Spanish bank account does not by itself make you a resident — but a home kept available in Spain makes absences look sporadic. See how the AEAT frames it ↗
Still waiting on a document? Mark it pending and keep going.

Your file grows as your move does.

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04 / When you're ready

You prepare here.
You file with the Agencia Tributaria.

There is no departure return — but there are four things the Agencia Tributaria expects you to do, and they have deadlines. This app does not connect to the Sede Electrónica or Cl@ve.

AEAT: Modelo 030 — communicating a change of tax domicile ↗
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File Modelo 030

Within three months of the change: your new tax domicile abroad, marked as your tax domicile (there can be only one), and the date you ceased to be tax resident in Spain.

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File Modelo 247 if you are being posted

From 30 days before departure, with the employer's letter showing destination, contract length and expected end date. It switches withholding to IRNR for up to two calendar years; it does not decide your residency.

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File your final resident-year Renta

Modelo 100 by 30 June of the following year on worldwide income, with Modelo 720 and Modelo 714 if applicable. If art. 95 bis applies, add the gain by complementary return within the Renta deadline of your first non-resident year — or elect deferral on Modelo 113 in the same window for an EU/EEA move.

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Switch to Modelo 210 and keep the file

From your first non-resident year, report Spanish property and other Spanish-source income on Modelo 210. Renew your foreign tax-residence certificate every year and keep it with your day counts, consular registration and every form you filed.

Good questions. Clear answers.

Before you
get started.

You can organise your evidence before deciding how far to take it.

Will your team review my final file?

Yes. Under an agreed review engagement, our team reviews your residency file and supporting package, provides a written advisory opinion and recommends revisions. That is our opinion — not an Agencia Tributaria determination or a binding consulta from the Dirección General de Tributos.

Is there a Spanish equivalent of Canada's NR73?

No. Spain has no departure form and no residency-opinion request. You self-assess each calendar year against article 9 of the IRPF law and tell the Agencia Tributaria your new domicile on Modelo 030. If you want certainty you file a written consulta with the Dirección General de Tributos, which is binding on the facts you give and must be answered within six months. DGT consultas ↗

Is there an exit tax when I leave Spain?

Only if you were resident for at least 10 of the last 15 tax years and your shares or fund units are worth more than €4,000,000, or you hold more than 25% of a company worth more than €1,000,000 to you. Then the unrealised gain is taxed in your last resident-year return at market value on your final day as a resident. EU/EEA moves can elect a ten-year hold-over on Modelo 113; temporary postings can request a deferral with guarantees; a move to a listed non-cooperative jurisdiction is taxed immediately. Below the thresholds there is no deemed disposal. AEAT: art. 95 bis ↗

I left in the autumn. Am I non-resident from that date?

No. Spain has no split year: you are resident or non-resident for the whole calendar year. If you passed 183 days in Spain — with sporadic absences counted — or your economic centre stayed there, you file a full-year Renta on worldwide income for the departure year, and only become non-resident from 1 January. Leave early enough in the year and the reverse applies: IRNR on Spanish-source income for the whole year, including the months you lived there. AEAT: calendar-year rule ↗

I'm a Spanish national moving to the Cayman Islands or Bahrain. Does that change anything?

Yes — a lot. Both are on Spain's list of non-cooperative jurisdictions, so under article 8.2 you remain an IRPF taxpayer on worldwide income for the year you move and the four following tax years, and the Agencia Tributaria can require proof of 183 days' physical presence there. Any art. 95 bis gain is also taxed immediately with no deferral. The UAE, Panama and Paraguay are not on the list; Gibraltar was removed by Orden HAC/649/2026. BOE: current list ↗

What if I keep a flat and a bank account in Spain?

A bank account is a fact, not a verdict. A property is a filing: as a non-resident you report imputed income on Modelo 210 every year (1.1% or 2% of cadastral value, taxed at 19% for EU/EEA residents and 24% for everyone else) or rental income if it is let; from the 2026 tax year the imputed-income window is 1 April to 31 December of the following year. If Spanish assets exceed €2,000,000 or wealth tax is payable after the €700,000 allowance you also file Modelo 714, and net Spanish wealth above €3,000,000 brings in the solidarity tax on Modelo 718. When you sell, the buyer withholds 3% of the price on Modelo 211 and you settle the 19% gain on Modelo 210. Modelo 210 deadlines ↗

What happens to my Seguridad Social and pensions?

Your contribution record stays. Spanish nationals working or living abroad can keep building retirement, permanent-incapacity and survivor rights through the convenio especial for emigrants (form TA.0040), with no minimum prior contribution period and quarterly payments. Spanish pensions paid to you abroad fall under IRNR on the non-resident scale unless a treaty allocates them to your new country — most treaties give private pensions to the residence state and public-service pensions to Spain. Seguridad Social: convenio especial ↗

What if I come back?

If you paid art. 95 bis tax and return to Spain still holding the shares, you can claim the tax back through a rectification request; if you deferred on Modelo 113 and return within the ten years, nothing was ever due. Coming back also restarts the count: the Beckham regime requires five years of non-residence before you can opt in, and the 10-of-15-year exit-tax clock keeps ticking from your earlier resident years. Plan the return with the same care as the departure.

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