Total cost: 209.397.410€
Cost / tax payer: 10€ per year
Total cost: 7.072.337.210€
Cost / tax payer: 290€ per year
Total cost: 7.281.734.620€
Cost / tax payer: 300€ per year
Tax resistance is an action that demonstrates your objection to an institution that goes against your ideological principles, by financing another with which you share values. In no way do we promote tax evasion, which is why the full amount of taxes you are objecting to paying must be donated to another institution.
During the COVID-19 crisis, the Council for the Catalan Republic promoted the Republican Fund for Solidary Action (FRAS) and the funds were allocated to alleviate the sanitary, social and economic effects of the pandemic. Nowadays the Fund will fulfill its aims as originally planned in the Catalan Council’s Government Strategy
Steps to make your objection by withholding tax:
The three amounts suggested at the top of this page represent, respectively, the sum total of the costs of: 1) royal and judicial repression; 2) police repression; and 3) royal, judicial and police repression combined. You can choose one of these three amounts to object to paying, or decide any other quantity to express your objection.
Write the amount that you object to paying in box 595 ‘Amount payable resulting from self-assessment’. Here you can calculate the amount of the payable balance that you wish to withhold by way of objection.
To object to paying some of the tax, you have to modify the draft version of your Income Tax Return. Therefore, it is important not to accept the draft version automatically, because the amount that you object to paying is included in a given box.
If you do your Income Tax Return through an agency, you just need to explain the procedure to them (by directing them to this website). If you do your tax return digitally, you have to go to Renta Web, the Treasury Department’s online tax return platform, and follow these steps:
Click on ‘Summary of statements’
Click on ‘Withholdings and other payments on account’. In field 0605 or 0606, write the amount that you object to paying that you want to deduct from your taxes.
Keep the reference number: once the tax return is completed, the program connects with the Treasury Department and generates a PDF with a reference number that you must keep hold of.
You can donate the amount of the tax you object to paying to the Fons Republicà d’Acció Social (FRAS) or another institution and/or cause. If you decide to deposit the objected amount to the FRAS, the money will be used to provide financial stability to the strategies to achieve the materialization of the Catalan Republic.
Remember that you must keep the receipt issued when the deposit is made.
If you choose to donate the amount of the tax you object to paying to another institution and/or entity, it is important that you specify the payment is being made as an “Objection to paying tax to the monarchy”
With this document, notify the Treasury Department of the amount that you have objected to paying, stating the reference number and attaching proof of the alternative payment.
You can submit the document and receipt to the Treasury Department in various ways:
In person (individually or in collective action). In the general register of any tax administration (you can go alone or in a group). No appointment is necessary. You need the original and the copy of the documents. They will stamp your copy to acknowledge receipt.
Electronically: You can submit it from the electronic office, to “Taxes and rates / other procedures gest tax” by clicking on“ Presentation”.
If you receive a demand from the Treasury Department with a settlement proposal. you can:
if the balance of your Income Tax Return is negative and you are owed a rebate, you must deposit the amount that the Treasury Department demands. If the balance of your Income Tax Return is positive and you have to pay an outstanding amount, you must pay the amount of the tax you withheld with interest (3.73%).
If you do not agree with the settlement proposal that the Treasury Department sends you, you can lodge a claim using this document.