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Name

Tax identification number (NIF): Assignment of a tax identification number (NIF) to legal persons and non-legal entities.

Type of procedure/service
Tax information
Subject
Taxes
SIA code
996922
Description

Procedure through which the Tax Agency assigns a tax identification number (NIF) to legal persons and non-legal entities for its tax relations.

Body responsible for the procedure
State Tax Administration Agency (EA0028512)

General information on the procedure/service

Instigating party
  • Interesado
  • Oficio
Recipient interested party
  • Business
Recipient office
  • Administration
Requisitos del solicitante
Más información sobre la protección de datos en la Agencia Tributaria en https://sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/condiciones-uso-sede-electronica/datos-personales.html
Documents
  • Form 036. Copy of the public deed or documentary proof of its incorporation and bylaws or equivalent document. Certificate of its registration in a public register, where applicable.
Deadline for resolution

10 Working day(s)

Más información sobre plazos
Los períodos de interrupción justificada que se especifiquen reglamentariamente, las dilaciones en el procedimiento por causa no imputable a la Administración Tributaria, y los períodos de suspensión del plazo que se produzcan conforme a lo previsto legalmente no se incluirán en el cómputo del plazo de resolución.
Administrative silence interested party
None
Administrative silence office
None
Competent bodies
  • Tax Agency
End of procedure
No
Appeals
  • Reconsideration: Application period: One month. Optional, at the office that made the administrative decision to be appealed, stating that no economic-administrative claim has been lodged against it.
  • Economic-administrative claim:Application period: One month from the day following notification of the contested action or the day on which the procedure or prior motion for reversal is deemed to be resolved. It shall be lodged with the administrative body that made the appealable decision.
Basic Regulations
Regulations applicable to online processing
Regulations approving inclusion of procedure or service in the register
Place of submission
  • Online
  • AEAT offices
Stages of procedure
  • Initial step: At the request of the party. Those legal persons or non-legal entities that are going to be have tax relations must request a tax identification number (NIF). The request shall be made by filing the declaration of registration in the register of business persons, professionals and withholders (Form 036). It must be requested prior to making any delivery, provision or acquisition of goods or services, receipt of collections or payments, or hiring of personnel, for the development of the business or professional activity. In all cases, the request shall be formulated within the month following the date of incorporation or establishment of the legal person or non-legal entity in Spain. Notaries may electronically file, in representation of legal persons and non-legal entities in the process of incorporation, Form 036 and the documentation required for requesting a provisional tax identification number in certain cases. Ex officio. If they do not request it, the local tax office may register them ex officio in the tax register of parties liable for tax payments and assign them the corresponding tax identification number.
  • Procedure: The local tax office may verify the accuracy of the data provided by the interested parties in their requests for a provisional or definitive tax identification number. In the event that the data is not accurate, a hearing period of ten days will be granted.
  • End Refusal: - Assignment of a provisional or definitive tax identification number may be denied when the verification made by the local tax office reveals that the data provided by the interested parties is not accurate. - A provisional or definitive tax identification number shall not be assigned to legal persons or non-legal entities that do not provide, at least, a signed document in which the grantors express their willingness to incorporate the legal person or organisation, or another document certifying situations of co-ownership. Assignment of a provisional / definitive tax identification number: -A tax identification number (NIF) will be assigned within a period of ten days. -The tax identification number will be provisional until the organisation provides a copy of the public deed or documentary proof of its incorporation or by-laws or equivalent document, in addition to a certificate of registration in a public register, where applicable. -When a provisional tax identification number is assigned, the organisation must provide the pending documentation required to assign the definitive tax identification number within a month from the date of registration in the corresponding register or from the granting of the aforementioned documents, in the event that registration in the corresponding register was not necessary. If the pending documentation has not been provided before this deadline, it may be officially requested, granting a maximum period of ten days in which to submit it or justify the reasons for not being able to do so, indicating the period of time required for its definitive submission. Failure to attend to the request in due time and in the proper form shall lead to withdrawal of the provisional tax identification number. -In order to request the definitive tax identification number, a tax register declaration of modification must be filed (Form 036), which must contain, where applicable, the modifications relating to the data provided in the declaration of request for a provisional tax identification number, which have not already been reported to the local office in prior tax register declarations of modification and which shall be accompanied by the pending documentation. The definitive tax identification number will be assigned once this obligation has been fulfilled. -By agreement between the local tax office and notaries, legal persons and non-legal entities shall be granted a provisional tax identification number when the public deed or irrefutable document of incorporation is granted, upon prior filing of Form 036, and the definitive tax identification number shall be granted upon registration in the register.
URl for online processing
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Forms
Requisitos identificación personas jurídicas
High: Electronic DNI, other recognised certificated in HW format, with the certification of a qualified certification body.
Identification system(s)
  • Does not require authentication
Integrado en Clave
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Practica notificaciones
  • Electronic notification by means of Electronic Submission
  • Electronic notification by means of Enabled E-mail Address
Sujeto a tasas
No
Level of interactivity
Level 4: Online procedure

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