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Spansk skatt i Alicante City
Modelo 210, IBI-rabatter, ITP och arvsskatt (ISD) för fastighetsägare i Alicante City — allt hanterat av en auktoriserad colegiado som själv bor på Costa Blanca.
What property owners in Alicante City need to know
Alicante capital is the third-largest property market in CV with a notable foreign-buyer share (~40 %). Unlike the pure-vacation profile of Torrevieja or Calpe, Alicante combines second-home owners with year-round residents and remote workers — modelo 210 imputada filings sit alongside full IRPF for digital-nomad-visa holders.
Top services for Alicante City
Regional tax framework
- ITP general rate
- 9%
- ITP reduced rate (vivienda habitual)
- 6%
- AJD (stamp duty)
- 1,4%
- ISD bonification grupo I/II
- 50%
- Autonomic law reference
- Ley 13/1997 CV
These rates reflect the autonomic (CCAA) framework in force at the time of writing. Municipal IBI rates and bonifications are set separately by each ayuntamiento and we confirm the current figures from the latest ordenanza fiscal before any filing.
In Alicante City: municipal taxes and paperwork
- Plusvalía settled with
- Ayuntamiento de Alicante
- IBI billed by
- Ayuntamiento de Alicante or SUMA: check your receipt
Municipal plusvalía (IIVTNU) when you sell
In the provincial capital the plusvalía municipal is settled with the Ayuntamiento de Alicante, which fixes the IIVTNU rate and the annual coefficients in its own ordenanza fiscal under the 30 % ceiling of art. 108 TRLRHL. Alicante has the full range of urban land situations — consolidated centre, redeveloped waterfront, peripheral neighbourhoods — and cadastral land values differ enormously between them, so the base of the tax on two flats sold at the same price can diverge widely. The seller pays on a sale (art. 106.1.b), with the buyer stepping in as substitute taxpayer whenever the seller is a non-resident individual (art. 106.2). Since RDL 26/2021 both the objective and the real-gain method are available and the lower one applies.
Plusvalía calculator →The 3 % retention and modelo 211
The 3 % retention applies to any sale where the seller is not a Spanish tax resident, and in Alicante city that includes a growing group of remote workers and recent arrivals whose residence status is genuinely uncertain. It is worth resolving before completion, because the answer changes everything: a Spanish tax resident declares the gain in the annual IRPF and no 3 % is withheld at all, while a non-resident has 3 % held back on modelo 211 and settles on modelo 210 at 19 % or 24 %. Residence is decided by the facts — 183 days, centre of economic interests — not by what your padrón certificate says, and getting it wrong in either direction produces a filing that has to be corrected later.
Guide: selling as a non-resident →IBI: the annual bill and who issues it
Who bills the IBI in Alicante is worth confirming before you set up payment rather than assuming. Delegating collection is a decision each ayuntamiento takes on its own under art. 7 TRLRHL, so across Alicante province some municipalities are billed by SUMA Gestión Tributaria and others directly by the town hall, and that can change. Read the issuing body printed on your own receipt: it tells you where the payment references, the direct-debit mandate and any objection have to go. Being a provincial capital does have a legal consequence for the amount, though not for who collects it: art. 72 TRLRHL allows capitals a supplementary increase on the general urban rate, which is one reason a capital's headline rate does not sit at the level of a small coastal town's. The rest is the ordinary regime: the rate and the bonifications are approved annually in the ordenanza fiscal, the tax accrues on 1 January (art. 75 TRLRHL), and arrears attach to the property under art. 64.1 TRLRHL.
IBI calculator →NIE and empadronamiento
Alicante is where the provincial Oficina de Extranjería sits, and it is the office that resolves NIE applications for the whole province, including every Costa Blanca town. Applications go in on form EX-15 with the €9.84 fee (790/012) and by prior appointment through the official cita previa system — there is no walk-in service, and the appointment is personal to whoever attends. Empadronamiento with the Ayuntamiento de Alicante is unrelated: it is the municipal population register under Ley 7/1985, it applies to people actually living in the city, and the certificate is what you present for a health card, a school place or a residence-linked municipal benefit. Registering in the padrón does not make you a Spanish tax resident and not registering does not stop you becoming one — the tax test is factual.
Guide: how to get a NIE →Municipal rates, coefficients and bonifications are set by each ayuntamiento in its ordenanza fiscal and revised every year, so none are quoted here. We read the ordenanza in force and confirm the exact figures before any filing.
Specific questions about Alicante City
I work remotely from Alicante on a UK contract. Spanish tax resident?
If you spend >183 days in Spain in a calendar year or your centre of economic interests is in Spain, you become resident under IRPF and tax worldwide income at IRPF national + CV autonomic brackets. The digital nomad visa (Ley 28/2022) offers a 5-year reduced regime that pre-empts the IRPF rate for qualifying remote workers.
Buying in Alicante from outside Spain — what taxes hit on signing?
Used property: ITP 9 % CV general for accruals from 1 June 2026 (Ley 5/2025 GVA; 11 % on the portion above €1,000,000), with reduced vivienda habitual rates if eligible. New property: 10 % IVA + 1.4 % AJD. Plus notaría (~0.5-1 %), registro (~0.3 %), gestoría and bank costs. We provide a closing-cost summary in EUR + GBP/EUR/USD before signing.
Alicante city IBI is set per ordenanza — high or low vs the coast?
Alicante capital IBI rates are in the mid-range for urban CV: lower than Valencia capital but higher than smaller costal towns. The town hall offers structured familia-numerosa and energy-efficiency bonifications. Exact 2025-2026 rates come from the latest BOP Alicante publication.
Where do I apply for a NIE if my property is in a Costa Blanca village?
At the Oficina de Extranjería in Alicante or at an authorised National Police station within the province — the NIE is a state procedure, not a municipal one, so your town hall has nothing to do with it. You apply on form EX-15, pay €9.84 on form 790 code 012, and book a prior appointment through the official system; there is no walk-in service. If you are still abroad, the Spanish consulate for your area or a representative acting under an express power of attorney can file it for you.
Recent regulatory changes
Alicante capital published its 2025 IBI ordenanza with refreshed family-numerosa thresholds. The town hall participates in the CV-wide modelo 600 telemática system for ITP/AJD self-assessment.