Today the Income 2017 campaign has been launched . Starting today, April 4, you can present this year's income tax return. And you can do it through an application or, if you have to make changes, through the Renta WEB system to manage it online.
And although apparently the Tax Agency wants to make things easy for us, there are cases in which it seems that it wants to make things difficult for us. This is the case of people who have some type of disability and who are working for someone else.
It is likely that if you are in this situation, the Treasury already has knowledge of it. In fact, as soon as you access the system to make the declaration, when the personal data appears, the option is usually marked. But later, when accessing the rest of the pages to make the income statement, the tax advantages disappear (at least in appearance).
And the truth is that it is not intuitive to add this important piece of information again in order to obtain a statement in our favor. In fact, it is very easy for some users to accept the draft without having found the option.
The disability increase box in 2017 Income
It is possible that as soon as you have advanced through the pages to present the return, you will find that the box to indicate the increase due to disability in the 2017 income statement is inactive. To be able to fill it in, within the job performance page, you will have to click on any button to edit one of the blank boxes .
It can be a bit complicated, and zero intuitive, but as we indicated in the screenshot below, within the Additional data section you can mark the degree of disability. Number 1 for a disability between 33 and 65%, and number 2 when the disability is 65% or more and the need for another person to help you in your day-to-day is accredited.
If during the entire period of 2017 you have been active and you already had the disability condition, it will be enough for you to check the following box. If not, you will have to calculate the proportional increase according to the amounts that correspond to you.
What increase corresponds to me?
As of January 1, 2015 , a new system of deductible expenses was introduced , through the name "Other deductible expenses":
- A fixed amount of 2,000 euros per year, generally applicable.
- An increase due to geographical mobility.
- An increase for active workers with disabilities of 3,500 euros (if you are in case 1) and 7,750 euros per year (if you are in case 2 that we have described before). If you have only had this condition for a few months in 2017, you will have to divide the total time of the year by the time you have been active. In this case, we recommend you go to an advisor to make the correct calculation.
And that's it, once you have checked the boxes and returned to the declaration, you will see the increase appear and the declaration will have a more favorable result.