2025 State Budget Proposal Law

Corporate Income Tax (CIT)

CIT – SB 2025
  • October 11, 2024

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CIT Rate

The standard CIT rate is reduced by 1 percentage point, dropping to 20%.

SMEs and Small Mid Caps will be subject to an CIT rate of 16% (currently 17%) on the first € 50,000 of taxable income.

The standard CIT rate is reduced by 1 percentage point, dropping to 20%.

Autonomous Taxation

A reduction in autonomous taxation is anticipated on expenses related to passenger cars, certain light commercial vehicles, motorcycles, or motorbikes.


2024 2025 Proposal
Brackets
Rates
Brackets
Rates
Less than € 27,500 8.5% Less than € 37,500 8%
Equal to or greater than € 27,500 and less than € 35,000 25.5% Equal to or greater than € 37,500 and less than € 45,000 25%
Equal to or greater than € 35,000 32.5% Equal to or greater than € 45,000 32%

It is also expected that the expenses incurred with shows offered to clients, suppliers, or any other people or entities will no longer qualify as representation expenses, hence not subject to autonomous taxation.

The increased rate by 10 percentage points is not applicable in the 2025 tax year when: 

(i) the taxpayer has obtained taxable profit in one of the three previous tax periods and has timely fulfilled the declarative obligations related to the submission of the CIT return and the Annual Statement for the two previous tax years; or
(ii) the 2025 tax year corresponds to the start-up tax year or one of the two subsequent years.

Check the impact of changes to autonomous taxation here:

2024 2025 SB Proposal Impact
Cost
of vehicle
acquisition
Depreciation
(25%)
Other
costs
Autonomous
Taxation Rate
Autonomous
Taxaion
Autonomous
Taxation Rate
Autonomous
Taxaion
Reduction
(Absolute Value)
Variation
€ 20,000 € 5,000.00 € 2,500.00 8.5% € 637.50 8% 600.00 -37.50 -5.88%
€ 27,500 € 6,875.00 € 2,500.00 25.5% € 2,390.63 8% 750.00 -1,640.63 -68.63%
€ 30,000 € 7,500.00 € 2,500.00 25.5% € 2,550.00 8% 800.00 -1,750.00 -68.63%
€ 35,000 € 8,750.00 € 2,500.00 32.5% € 3,656.25 8% 900.00 -2,756.25 -75.38%
€ 37,499 € 9,374.75 € 2,500.00 32.5% € 3,859.29 8% 949.98 -2,909.31 -75.38%
€ 37,500 € 9,375.00 € 2,500.00 32.5% € 3,859.38 25% 2,968.75 -890.63 -23.08%
€ 40,000 € 10,000.00 € 2,500.00 32.5% € 4,062.50 25% 3,125.00 -937.50 -23.08%
€ 45,000 € 11,250.00 € 2,500.00 32.5% € 4,468.75 32% 4,400.00 -68.75 -1.54%

Conclusion
The greatest impact is observed in vehicles with acquisition costs between 35,000 € and 37,500 €, and this is due to three factors:
1) They now fall into the lower bracket (currently, they are in the upper bracket); and
2) The rate thus reduces from 32.5% to 8%.

Health insurance

Expenses incurred with health insurance for the benefit of employees, retirees, or their families, when considered a social benefit for CIT purposes, will be considered at 120% of their value.

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