The leaving-Spain checklist
These are the evidence categories the Agencia Tributaria weighs, in the order it will look for them. Download the same list as a one-page PDF — no email needed.
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Your new country
- Lease or proof of housingNames, address, dates and the living arrangement.
- New driver's licenceIf issued and applicable to your situation.
- Residence or immigration documentThe visa or permit that applies to your status — and whether it is permanent.
- Local bank statementEvidence of an account in your new country.
Spain
- Consular registration (Registro de Matrícula Consular)Spanish nationals who move abroad must register as residents at the consulate. That registration puts you on the PERE and automatically removes you from your municipal padrón and the domestic electoral census.
- Modelo 030 — new tax domicile abroadCommunicate your foreign tax domicile to the Agencia Tributaria within three months of the change (sooner if your Renta deadline comes first).
- Employer notice — Modelo 247If your employer is posting you abroad, file Modelo 247 from 30 days before departure so payroll can withhold under IRNR rules; keep the employer's posting letter.
- Seguridad Social and healthcareDecide whether to keep contributing through the convenio especial for Spanish emigrants (form TA.0040, no prior contribution period required); tell your regional health service you are leaving and keep the letters.
- Bank, property and pension updatesAsk your bank to reclassify you as a non-resident, appoint a representative if you keep property, and update pension providers with a foreign address so withholding switches to IRNR.
Keeping a Spanish bank account does not by itself make you a resident — but a home kept available in Spain makes absences look sporadic. See how the AEAT frames it ↗
You prepare here.
You file with the Agencia Tributaria.
There is no departure return — but there are four things the Agencia Tributaria expects you to do, and they have deadlines. This app does not connect to the Sede Electrónica or Cl@ve.
1. File Modelo 030
Within three months of the change: your new tax domicile abroad, marked as your tax domicile (there can be only one), and the date you ceased to be tax resident in Spain.
2. File Modelo 247 if you are being posted
From 30 days before departure, with the employer's letter showing destination, contract length and expected end date. It switches withholding to IRNR for up to two calendar years; it does not decide your residency.
3. File your final resident-year Renta
Modelo 100 by 30 June of the following year on worldwide income, with Modelo 720 and Modelo 714 if applicable. If art. 95 bis applies, add the gain by complementary return within the Renta deadline of your first non-resident year — or elect deferral on Modelo 113 in the same window for an EU/EEA move.
4. Switch to Modelo 210 and keep the file
From your first non-resident year, report Spanish property and other Spanish-source income on Modelo 210. Renew your foreign tax-residence certificate every year and keep it with your day counts, consular registration and every form you filed.
AEAT: Modelo 030 — communicating a change of tax domicile ↗
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