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Zarzuela believes Juan Carlos I should set his tax address in Spain if he wants to return to the state

The emeritus king may return to Spain when he deems it appropriate, but in the Royal House they believe that if he wishes to protect his image and that of the Crown, then he should also establish his tax residence in the State.

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El Rey emérito Juan Carlos I a su salida del restaurante D’Berto, a 5 de noviembre de 2025, en O Grove, Pontevedra, Galicia (España). El Rey emérito vuelve a España para participar en las regatas de Sanxenxo el mismo día en que se publican sus memorias, ‘Reconciliación’, en Francia y un mes antes de que salgan a la luz en España.



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Emeritus King Juan Carlos I, in a stock image. Photo: Europa Press

The Royal House has raised this Friday the path that Juan Carlos I should follow if he wants to return definitively from his "exile" in Abu Dhabi : to establishhis tax residence in Spain. However, this movement on the complex board of relations between Zarzuela and the emeritus is not definitive.

On the occasion of the attempted coup d'état of 23 February 1978, although at the beginning of the week all eyes were on the historical figure of Juan Carlos I, on Thursday they set out for Zarzuela , after the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, advocated the return of "the one who stopped the coup d'état"; the Government, for its part, by several ministers, clarified that the decision concerned only the emeritus and perhaps the Head of State.

Juan Carlos Abu Dabira left in August 2020 because ofhis fiscal problems, which, along with other elements, were always considered key to the 2014 abdication.

Zarzuela sources have stressed that, if returned, the current king's father would have to regain the Spanish tax residence "in order to preserve the image of the Crown as an institution "and also to protect the reputation of Juan Carlos I in the face of possible" speculation and criticism ".

Since his son withdrew the 200,000 euros a year he received from the budgets of the Royal House in March 2020, and after voluntarily leaving for the United Arab Emirates in August of that year, Juan Carlos I has not paid taxes in Spain again, as all members of the royal family do.

Therefore, the Spanish Treasury is unaware of its income over the past five years or of its sources of funding.

The establishment of the tax domicile in Spain would oblige the State to pay taxes on its assets and income, and if the current situation were maintained, they would in no way derive from the EUR 8.4 million received by the Royal House through the general budgets of the State.

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