{"id":3413,"date":"2026-03-04T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/modelo-720-spain-expats\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:59:59","slug":"modelo-720-spain-expats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/modelo-720-spain-expats\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelo 720 Spain \u2013 Reporting Overseas Assets as an Expat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Modelo 720<\/strong> is an informative tax declaration for assets held abroad. Every tax resident in Spain with overseas assets exceeding 50,000 euros in any of three categories must file this form.<\/p>\n<h2>Who must file?<\/h2>\n<p>All <strong>tax residents in Spain<\/strong> who own overseas assets above 50,000 euros as of 31 December in:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Bank accounts<\/strong> abroad<\/li>\n<li><strong>Securities, shares, funds<\/strong> at foreign banks<\/li>\n<li><strong>Property<\/strong> abroad<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Each category is assessed <strong>separately<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Deadline<\/h2>\n<p>Must be filed by <strong>31 March<\/strong> of the following year. The initial filing is one-off; after that, you only re-file if values change by more than 20,000 euros.<\/p>\n<h2>What must be reported?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Accounts:<\/strong> IBAN, bank, balance on 31 Dec and average Q4 balance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Securities:<\/strong> ISIN, bank, value on 31 Dec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Property:<\/strong> Address, purchase date, price, current value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Penalties<\/h2>\n<p>Penalties were reduced after a <strong>2022 EU court ruling<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Late filing: 150 euros per data item (minimum 300 euros)<\/li>\n<li>No penalties on the asset value itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, failing to file is not an option \u2013 Spain has automatic data exchange with many countries.<\/p>\n<h2>How to file<\/h2>\n<p>Filed electronically via the Agencia Tributaria website. You need a digital certificate or Cl@ve PIN. Most expats use a <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/tax-advisor-mallorca\/\">tax advisor<\/a> \u2013 cost approx. 100-300 euros.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/taxes-mallorca-expats\/\">Taxes in Mallorca for expats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/moving-to-mallorca\/\">moving to Mallorca guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modelo 720 is an informative tax declaration for assets held abroad. Every tax resident in Spain with overseas assets exceeding 50,000 euros in any of three categories must file this form. Who must file? All tax residents in Spain who own overseas assets above 50,000 euros as of 31 December in: Bank accounts abroad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finanzen-steuern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorca-portal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}