Information Regarding the Spanish Financial Transaction Tax

Overview

This document provides an overview of how the Spanish Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) will be handled by Interactive Brokers.

Effective January 16, 2021, a new tax will be implemented on the purchase of certain Spanish securities.

Tax Rate

The announced tax is 0.20%.

Scope

The FTT will be applied to shares of Spanish companies whose market capitalisation exceeds EUR 1,000 million as of December 1 of the year preceding the year that the acquisition takes place. The shares must have been admitted to trading on a regulated market which may be the Spanish market, a market of another European Union Member state or an equivalent market in a third country. The Spanish Ministry of Finance will publish a list of Spanish companies with a market cap exceeding this threshold by December 31 each year. The Ministry of Finance will review and republish the list the first month the FTT is in place.

The following cases are subject to the Spanish FTT:

Shares acquired on an exchange transaction
Shares acquired on the execution or settlement of fixed-income securities which may be converted or exchanged for shares
Shares acquired as a result of execution or settlement of financial derivatives (i.e. stock option exercise/assignment)
Shares acquired from the execution of finance contracts defined in article 2.1 of Order EHA3537/2005 (contracts not traded on official secondary markets for which a credit institution receives money or securities from customers assuming a repayment obligation)

Accrual

Tax becomes payable on the settlement date of the transaction.

Tax Base

There will be a special calculation for intra-day transactions. Therefore, only the net settlement will be taxed.