Recent Court Rulings in Spain that may enable you to reclaim property costs & taxes

Several key court rulings have hit the Spanish headlines over the last months raising huge waves which ripples we continue to feel every day in the shape of glossy newspaper and radio ads soliciting litigation clients. Lawyers have all too eagerly witnessed the recent snowball of landmark rulings which have opened up new venues to litigate that were previously barred to us.

To laymen, these rulings mark an inflection point allowing them a golden chance to claw back lost off-plan deposits from developers, undue interest rates pocketed by lenders, overcharged taxes from town halls and even from the Spanish Tax Office itself. Most of this money was written off years ago, by those affected (in the majority UK nationals). These new rulings have tipped the scales, turning legal outcomes upside down enabling successful litigation (and payback, which is really what it’s all about).

The best way to go about it is to simply provide a brief overview of all the ongoing court cases, one by one, giving the likely success odds, timeframe to claim and the amounts claimed back.

There are more court cases than the ones I collate below, but these overwhelmingly affect Spanish nationals (e.g. preferentes) so I will purposely leave them off the list...

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