2023-12-28 19:58:48
The Treasury of Gipuzkoa has simplified the procedures to request the refund of the excess tax, due to an error in the Personal Income Tax, of those former workers who contributed to mutual societies until 1978. Given the flood of claims from retirees from banking, metal and other sectors has presented a simple claim document, with name, surname and ID, and explaining the reason for the request, and subsequently the regional treasury, with the collaboration of Social Security, will check if that person meets the requirements to receive the compensation. At first, the Provincial Council also claimed in that document the working life, company certificate and registration of its mutual insurance company, but it has finally rejected it.
These claim forms can be obtained at the Gipuzkoa Treasury offices, and are not available online. Tax technicians help people, many of them elderly retirees, with any questions they have, according to sources from the institution.
The queries and claims of former workers and mutual members before the Gipuzkoa Treasury, which is competent to pay compensation, are already thousands and have skyrocketed following the publication in this newspaper that the regional treasury had begun to compensate for this error , outside the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, following a ruling by the Supreme Court on a specific case in the Banking sector. Now, other sectors such as Metal, Construction, Fishing and Artillery are also filing claims.
This is the updated guide to claiming compensation.
What requirements must be fulfilled?
Be from Gipuzkoa and have submitted the income tax return in the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and/or 2022. Applicants must receive a retirement pension and must have worked before December 31, 1978, the date until which they were in the old pension mechanism comes into force. In 1979 that mutuality was extinguished, and Social Security took over.
What documents must you present to the Treasury?
It is only necessary to fill out a document with your name and surname, ID, company and sector where you work. The reason for the claim is written (“request rectification of the income tax returns submitted in non-prescribed years so that the Supreme Court’s ruling on labor mutual societies is applied”). They are collected at the Treasury offices. It cannot be done online.
Should the company always have contributed to a mutual society to collect compensation?
Yes. To be entitled to compensation, the company in which that person worked must have contributed to a labor mutual insurance company. This requirement will be validated with Social Security.
Can someone be excluded despite meeting the requirements?
Yes. People who receive a widow’s or orphan’s pension will not have the right to this compensation.
If the affected person has died, is he or she entitled to compensation?
Your heirs have the right to a refund of personal income tax for the years that have not expired.
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